Vasama PIK-16C
N216J is a Vasama PIK-16C, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Montague, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 2, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vasama
- Model
- PIK-16C
- Serial number
- 37
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A1D094 (octal 50350224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · May 2, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00721532
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shelby Rick
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1931 Lichens Rd
Montague, CA 96064-9209
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 N216J, 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 Shelby Rick, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 1980, 15 years after the 1965 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 37 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N216J 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 N216J. 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 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