Northrop F-5B
N991SC is a Northrop F-5B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to , a corporation. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, exhibition, dated June 19, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop
- Model
- F-5B · all F-5Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Northrop F-5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 66-9244
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge J85 SER · 2,950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Transponder code
- ADD7ED (octal 53353755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, exhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 9D (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 2020
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01296289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N991SC links to the rest of the register
- Northrop F-5 41 registered
- Northrop 81 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric J85 series 22 aircraft with this engine series · 2,950 lb thrust
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N991SC.json.
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The public federal record on N991SC, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 2020, 54 years after the 1966 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 66-9244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N991SC according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N991SC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data