{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1980-05-01","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-04-07","city":"CHINO","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":278,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52026","engine_horsepower":2000,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-2800 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3950614","mode_s_code":"51432177","mode_s_hex":"A6347F","model":"F6F-5","n_number":"N4994V","name":"PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Monterey","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-10-08","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL06LA003","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate preflight planning and inadequate evaluation of the weather, inadequate visual lookout, and his failure to maintain clearance, resulted in the  in-flight collision with power lines.","registration":"N4994V","state":"TN","summary":"Accident on October 8, 2005 at Monterey, TN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Parker","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-01-11","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX03FA066","probable_cause":"failure of both pilot's to see and avoid one another while maneuvering in the traffic pattern.  A factor in the accident was the inability of the Cessna pilot to communicate on the CTAF frequency due to the limitations of his radios.","registration":"N4994V","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on January 11, 2003 at Parker, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4994V is a Grumman F6F-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2005 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 1, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 7, 2005, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 1, 1980, 36 years after the 1944 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 93879 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4994V 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":"2 NTSB records under N4994V: Accident on October 8, 2005 at Monterey, TN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on January 11, 2003 at Parker, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"93879","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14998 CAL AERO DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00640825","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4994V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1944,"zip":"917109056"}