Michael Ringenberg VANS RV10
N2816M is a Michael Ringenberg VANS RV10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael Ringenberg
- Model
- VANS RV10
- Serial number
- 42239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-540 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A2D4E8 (octal 50552350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 25, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01416679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ringenberg Michael E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7512 Nautical Ct
Panama City, FL 32409-4827 - Co-owners
- Ringenberg Stephen D
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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 N2816M, 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 Ringenberg Michael E, a co-owned, certificate issued October 3, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2816M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 327840056, cancelled September 11, 1998); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1178, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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]
2 NTSB records under N2816M: Accident on January 17, 1997 at Boca Raton, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 23, 1987 at Churchton, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
Improper overhaul of the left magneto which resulted in a defect in the left magneto rotating magnet to go undetected which caused the magneto to stop rotating and break several teeth from engine crankshaft gears and disconnect the crankshaft drive gear.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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