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N494M

Chance Vought F4U-5

Valid Illinois

N494M is a Chance Vought F4U-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Springfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Chance Vought
Model
F4U-5
Serial number
124486
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A62007 (octal 51420007)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 18, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00110685

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
George Mike
Type
Individual
Address
6 Fox Mill Ln
Springfield, IL 62712-9511

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1971-07-14Mooney M-18LA · Valid registration
1930-08-08Baker Mcmillen CADET II · Valid registration

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