{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1991-09-10","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1994-04-21","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":127,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52020","engine_horsepower":1350,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-1830 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-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Consolidated Vultee","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CONSOLIDATED VULTEE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2421302","mode_s_code":"52314670","mode_s_hex":"A999B8","model":"PBY-6A","n_number":"N7179Y","name":"AMERICAN AIRPWR HERITAGE FLY MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7179Y is a Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Airpwr Heritage Fly Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 10, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airpwr Heritage Fly Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 21, 1994, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 1991, 46 years after the 1945 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 225 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7179Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30-199, cancelled December 3, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N7179Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"225","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 764769","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00185361","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7179Y","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1945,"zip":"753764769"}