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N7459

Polikarpov I-16 TYPE 24

N7459 is a Polikarpov I-16 TYPE 24, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 12, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Polikarpov
Model
I-16 TYPE 24
Serial number
2421014
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wsk-Pzl ASZ-621R-16 · 967 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1940
Transponder code
AA08B0 (octal 52404260)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · February 12, 2009
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00893707

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wartime History Museum INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2602 S 38Th St Ste A #42
Tacoma, WA 98409

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 1

1971-03-17Vickers VISCOUNT 797 · Valid registration

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