Mattson Douglas L VANS RV9A
N316M is a Mattson Douglas L VANS RV9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dike, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mattson Douglas L
- Model
- VANS RV9A
- Serial number
- 91035
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A35E2E (octal 50657056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 28, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01038861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mattson Douglas L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 401 Division St
Dike, IA 50624-9602
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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 N316M, 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 Mattson Douglas L, an individual, certificate issued September 4, 2009, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N316M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Madsen Myron L LANCAIR-320 (serial 88-244, cancelled September 25, 2003); Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 (serial 11, cancelled March 8, 1933). 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 N316M: Accident on May 6, 2001 at Valparaiso, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Madsen Lancair 320 · operated under 091
The pilot not maintaining aircraft control during the initial climb after takeoff and the inadvertent stall/spin. A factor to the accident was the pilot's total lack of experience in accident airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA131 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