Piper J4A
N26716 is a Piper J4A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dowagiac, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J4A · all J4As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4-859
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A29B98 (octal 50515630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00333422
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mottweiler Martin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29248 Middle Crossing Rd
Dowagiac, MI 49047-9267
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 2
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N26716, 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 Mottweiler Martin, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-859 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26716 according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N26716. 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