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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Dieringer Nathan W AIR FORCE ONE
N161N is a Dieringer Nathan W AIR FORCE ONE, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Menasha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dieringer Nathan W
- Model
- AIR FORCE ONE
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A0F691 (octal 50173221)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 25, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01292584
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dieringer Nathan W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2105 Ridgecrest Ln
Menasha, WI 54952-9459
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N161N links to the rest of the register
- Dieringer Nathan W 7 aircraft on the register
- Menasha, WI 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,162 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N161N, 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.
Valid registration to Dieringer Nathan W, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 1 (serial 41, cancelled June 30, 2009). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N161N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data