Bolkow PHOEBUS A-1
N196J is a Bolkow PHOEBUS A-1, a glider with no engine, built in 1967. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 12, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bolkow
- Model
- PHOEBUS A-1
- Serial number
- 766
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A17F3D (octal 50277475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 12, 1968
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00862990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prenovost Jon Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1010 N Ridge Rd Apt 1021
Wichita, KS 67212-6071
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N196J, 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 Prenovost Jon Michael, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 12, 1968, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 766 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196J 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 N196J. 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 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 August 27, 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