Piper-Smith PA-11
N16686 is a Piper-Smith PA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oneill, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 8, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper-Smith
- Model
- PA-11
- Serial number
- 11-JRS-3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A10B87 (octal 50205607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 8, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00232190
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith A J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 615 E Douglas St
Oneill, NE 68763-1647
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.
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The public federal record on N16686, 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 Smith A J, an individual, certificate issued January 18, 2017, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11-JRS-3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16686 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]
1 NTSB record under N16686: Accident on May 15, 1993 at Thedford, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-11 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN ON WHICH TO LAND AND HIS EXCESSIVE USE OF BRAKES.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data