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N65WF

Chance Vought F4U-5

Valid Montana

N65WF is a Chance Vought F4U-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 23, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Chance Vought
Model
F4U-5
Serial number
122184
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1948
Transponder code
A88C5B (octal 52106133)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · October 23, 1992
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00972516

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith James E Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 8177
Kalispell, MT 59904-1177
Co-owners
Talcott Jeri K Trustee

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