{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1976-02-26","city":"LAKELAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"105","cruise_speed_mph":138,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Lockheed","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LOCKHEED","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5269902","mode_s_code":"51175303","mode_s_hex":"A4FAC3","model":"WP-3D","n_number":"N42RF","name":"UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"","damage":"","date":"2007-11-09","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA13IA006","probable_cause":"Extensive salt buildup in the inlets of all four engines, which resulted in compressor stalls and tailpipe fires in three of the four engines.","registration":"N42RF","state":"AO","summary":"Incident on November 9, 2007 at AO: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"NOAA AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS CENTER / AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS CENTER","plain_english":"N42RF is a Lockheed WP-3D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 21 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Commerce, a government body in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 1976 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United States Department Of Commerce, a government body, certificate issued February 26, 1976, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5622 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N42RF according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N42RF: Incident on November 9, 2007 at AO: no injuries. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":21,"serial_number":"5622","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3450 FLIGHTLINE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00131654","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N42RF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"338112836"}