{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1980-08-12","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-04-24","city":"ANKENY","country_code":"US","county_code":"153","cruise_speed_mph":94,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52008","engine_horsepower":450,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"R-985 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Naval Aircraft Factory","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"6120202","mode_s_code":"51274540","mode_s_hex":"A57960","model":"N3N-3","n_number":"N45184","name":"IOWA MILITARY AVIATION HERITAGE MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MADERA","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-05-05","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX90DVA03","probable_cause":"THE PILOT INADVERTENTLY DESCENDING INTO THE GROUND. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INFLIGHT OPENING OF THE HOPPER LID WHICH PARTIALLY OBSCURED THE PILOT'S VISION.","registration":"N45184","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 5, 1990 at Madera, CA: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45184 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated August 12, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 1980, 40 years after the 1940 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2837 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N45184 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 N45184: Accident on May 5, 1990 at Madera, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"2837","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3704 CONVENIENCE BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00139418","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45184","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1940,"zip":"500219418"}