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N78774

Curtiss Wright C-46F

Valid Virginia

N78774 is a Curtiss Wright C-46F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 65 seats. It is registered to Military Aviation Museum, a corporation in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
C-46F
Serial number
22597
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
65
Year built
1944
Cruising speed
180 mph
Transponder code
AAADF1 (octal 52526761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 8, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 12, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00735000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Military Aviation Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
4455 South Blvd Ste 500
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1387

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

1971-01-27Cessna 172K · Valid registration
1960-12-06Piper PA-11 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

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