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Chance Vought F4U-4 · 1942 · Santa Teresa, NM
N53JB is a 1942 Chance Vought F4U-4 (serial BU81698), registered to War Eagles Air Museum (corporation) in Santa Teresa, NM. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires July 2028; the airworthiness certificate dates from March 1981 (45 years ago). It carries a P & W R-2800 SERIES engine rated at 2,000 hp, the engine on 89% of registered Chance Vought F4U-4s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A6AEDE. It is one of 13 Chance Vought F4U-4 aircraft on the FAA registry. War Eagles Air Museum holds 25 aircraft on the registry.
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8 of the 9 registered Chance Vought F4U-4 carry this engine (89%), across 2 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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