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N156FC

Fieseler Co FI-156-C1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMassachusetts

N156FC is a Fieseler Co FI-156-C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation INC DBA, a corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 18, 1985.

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Aircraft

Maker
Fieseler Co
Model
FI-156-C1
Serial number
4621
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Argus AS10R · 250 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0E0F9 (octal 50160371)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 12, 2019
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 18, 1985
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00291185

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Collings Foundation INC DBA
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
568 Main St
Hudson, MA 01749-3027
Co-owners
American Heritage Museum

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N156FC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Argus AS10R 6 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
Owner
Place
  • Hudson, MA 20 aircraft registered in this town
  • Massachusetts 2,646 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N156FC, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Collings Foundation INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4621 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N156FC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N156FC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data