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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026State Aircraft Factories MIG 15
N996 is a State Aircraft Factories MIG 15, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1950. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 9, 1995.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- State Aircraft Factories
- Model
- MIG 15
- Serial number
- 122071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Klimov VK-1A · 5950 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1950
- Transponder code
- ADE8EC (octal 53364354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 9, 1995
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00534272
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marine Aviation Museum INC
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247 - Co-owners
- Sharpe Richard e JR
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 N996 links to the rest of the register
- State Aircraft Factories 4 aircraft on the register
- Klimov VK-1A 12 aircraft with this engine series · 5950 hp
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N996, 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 Marine Aviation Museum INC, a co-owned, certificate issued October 29, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 9, 1995, 45 years after the 1950 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 122071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N996 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 N996. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data