Forbes William E RUTAN LONG EZE
N16WF is a Forbes William E RUTAN LONG EZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating kit-built aircraft, dated July 26, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Forbes William E
- Model
- RUTAN LONG EZE
- Serial number
- 049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A0F14F (octal 50170517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating kit-built aircraft · July 26, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00865801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Snadecki Eric A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2851 Compass Ct Apt 202
Fort Bragg, NC 28307-2224
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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
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The public federal record on N16WF, 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 Snadecki Eric A, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2004, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 26, 2004, 8 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16WF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Howe David EVANS VP-1 (serial V383DH, cancelled October 4, 1990). 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]
1 NTSB record under N16WF: Accident on August 7, 2005 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Forbes Rutan Long EZE · operated under 091
a total electrical failure due to a short in the master relay, causing the main fuse to open. Contributing factors included an inadequate electrical design by the airplane's builder, a low-output alternator, a cement wall, and unsuitable terrain on which to make a forced landing.
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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data