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N26816

Piper J4A

Valid Minnesota

N26816 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 Messerer Jonathan D, a partnership in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 20, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J4A · all J4As and related versions
Serial number
4-913
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
A29F4F (octal 50517517)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 24, 2020
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 20, 1957
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00413482

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Messerer Jonathan D
Type
Partnership
Address
2009 W 8Th St
Duluth, MN 55806-1225
Co-owners
Messerer Jeremy D

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N26816, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Messerer Jonathan D, a partnership, certificate issued February 24, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 20, 1957, 17 years after the 1940 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-913 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N26816 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N26816. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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