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N43RF

Lockheed WP-3D

Valid Florida

N43RF 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 March 17, 1976 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed
Model
WP-3D
Serial number
5633
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 4 motors
Seats
21
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
A52242 (octal 51221102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 17, 1976
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00542004

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Department Of Commerce
Type
Government
Address
Noaa Aoc
3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data