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N3009G

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

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 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gregory Vernon L, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated September 30, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5701 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3009G 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3009G: Accident on May 10, 1992 at Mason, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW92LA128Accident on May 10, 1992 at Mason, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

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 September 30, 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