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N79863

Grumman F6F-5

N79863 is a Grumman F6F-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. 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 January 14, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman
Model
F6F-5
Serial number
79863
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1945
Cruising speed
278 mph
Transponder code
AAD903 (octal 52554403)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
April 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · January 14, 2015
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00385260

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wartime History Museum INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2602 S 38Th St Ste A Unit 42
Tacoma, WA 98409-7303

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

1971-02-11Mooney M20E · Valid registration

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