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Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 · 1943 · Wilmington, DE
N44986 is a 1943 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 (serial 1943), registered to Db Aero Inc (corporation) in Wilmington, DE. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires October 2027; the airworthiness certificate dates from May 1963 (63 years ago). It carries a P&W R-985 SERIES engine rated at 450 hp, the engine on 40% of registered Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A56F9B. It is one of 145 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 aircraft on the FAA registry. Db Aero Inc holds 13 aircraft on the registry.
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53 of the 132 registered Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 carry this engine (40%), across 15 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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