Helmetag Roy W GLASSAIR III
N26H is a Helmetag Roy W GLASSAIR III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Auburn, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Helmetag Roy W
- Model
- GLASSAIR III
- Serial number
- 3170
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A27D53 (octal 50476523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 8, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00746821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Riester Bernard J JR DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1533 Clark Street Rd
Auburn, NY 13021-9526 - Co-owners
- Finger Lakes Aviation
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N26H, 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 Riester Bernard J JR DBA, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 47B3 (serial 71, cancelled November 29, 1951); Curtiss Wright ROBIN (serial 369, cancelled February 17, 1935). 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]
1 NTSB record under N26H: Accident on May 7, 2006 at Aurora, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Helmetag Glassair III · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll. A contributing factor was the airport sign impacted during the runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06CA126 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data