Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN
N3159Y is an Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Fantasy Fighters INC, a corporation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 14, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerovodochody
- Model
- L-29 DELFIN · all L-29 DELFINs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1238
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · Motorlet M-701C · 1960 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- A35D0E (octal 50656416)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 14, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00463602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fantasy Fighters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3662 Cerrillos Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87507-7249
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3159Y, 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 Fantasy Fighters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 30, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 14, 2011, 46 years after the 1965 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1238 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3159Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182E (serial 18254159, cancelled date not given). 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 N3159Y: Accident on August 18, 1984 at Prineville, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Cessna 182E · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84FA201 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
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