Warner Lewis STEEN SKYBOLT
N3278K is a Warner Lewis STEEN SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vergennes, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Warner Lewis
- Model
- STEEN SKYBOLT
- Serial number
- 1435609SS
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A38BCB (octal 50705713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 1982
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00512013
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lapierre Chris
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 110 Macdonough Dr
Vergennes, VT 05491-1057
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
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The public federal record on N3278K, 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 Lapierre Chris, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1435609SS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3278K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 1271, 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 N3278K: Accident on August 30, 2009 at Broomfield, CO: 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: Warner Lewis STEEN · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to maintain directional control due to an internal mechanical failure of the left wheel that caused the wheel to seize.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA553 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