Aeronca C-3
N16286 is an Aeronca C-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Falls Church, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- C-3 · all C-3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca C-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- A-662
- 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 · Aeronca E113 SERIES · 45 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FCAB (octal 50176253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 1991
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00012140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rambo Gene
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 305 Riley St
Falls Church, VA 22046-3311 - Co-owners
- Rambo Karen
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.
Connections how N16286 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca C-3 52 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aeronca E113 series 56 aircraft with this engine series · 45 hp
- Falls Church, VA 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,974 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca C-3 9 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N16286.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N16286, 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 Rambo Gene, a co-owned, certificate issued June 12, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-662 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16286 according to the deregistered file. [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 N16286. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data