Matthew Storch VL-3TE-916
N265X is a Matthew Storch VL-3TE-916, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Matthew Storch
- Model
- VL-3TE-916
- Serial number
- VL-3-568
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- ALION AVIATION S R O VL-3TE-916
- Transponder code
- A2939D (octal 50511635)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 27, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01454596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Storch Matthew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1711 Greystone Rdg
San Antonio, TX 78258-4507
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N265X, 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 Storch Matthew, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VL-3-568 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N265X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 680 (serial 680-353-43, cancelled September 18, 2012). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N265X. 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