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N983CF

Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A

N983CF is a Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation INC DBA, a corporation in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Consolidated Vultee
Model
PBY-5A
Serial number
9830
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
127 mph
Transponder code
ADB681 (octal 53333201)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 24, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 4, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01245216

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Collings Foundation INC DBA
Type
Corporation
Address
137 Barton Rd
Stow, MA 01775-1529
Co-owners
American Heritage Museum

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