Forney F-1
N3009G is a Forney F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Swansea, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 30, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Forney
- Model
- F-1 · all F-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5701
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A322EC (octal 50621354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 30, 1959
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00951023
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gregory Vernon L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 409 Sweet Pea Ln
Swansea, SC 29160-8951
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3009G, 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 Gregory Vernon L, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 30, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5701 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3009G according to the deregistered file. [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 N3009G: Accident on May 10, 1992 at Mason, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Forney F-1 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S DELAY IN PROCEEDING TO A SUITABLE ALTERNATE WHEN HIS FUEL STATE BECAME QUESTIONABLE AND HIS SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF CONTROL DURING THE OFF AIRPORT PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. A FACTOR WAS THE GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS ON LANDING.
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 September 30, 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
