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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Grumman F8F-1
N9G is a Grumman F8F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated March 24, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F8F-1 · all F8F-1s 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 Grumman F8 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
- 18
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 341 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6B10 (octal 53065420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · March 24, 1959
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00521471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meyerhoff Jens
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14539 e Edgewater Ct
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268-1255
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9G links to the rest of the register
- Grumman F8 14 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Fountain Hills, AZ 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,415 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman F8 3 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9G.json.
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The public federal record on N9G, 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 Meyerhoff Jens, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2009, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9G 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 N9G. 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