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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR
N316VV is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Golden Age N316Vv LLC, an LLC in Norwalk, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 6:34 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P-MENTOR · all P-MENTORs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. A carbon-fibre fuselage with aluminium wings. This is how the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1111/US
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ISC · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A35F0A (octal 50657412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 6, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01484624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Golden Age N316Vv LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2295 Coolidge St
Norwalk, IA 50211-9382
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N316VV links to the rest of the register
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 75 registered
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna 631 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ISC 70 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Type certificate A000671B · held by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna S P A
- Golden Age N316Vv LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Norwalk, IA 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 2 reports since 1995
- Where N316VV is now · Last seen Friday at 6:34 pm.
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The public federal record on N316VV, 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 Golden Age N316Vv LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1111/US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N316VV 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 N316VV: Accident on February 11, 2026 at Des Moines, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR · operated under 091
The solo student pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and a runway excursion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data