Fleet FLEET 16B
N343SF is a Fleet FLEET 16B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntington Station, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fleet
- Model
- FLEET 16B · all FLEET 16Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 343
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner R5 SERIES · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A3CA09 (octal 50745011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00982493
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martin Stephen S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12 Windham Dr
Huntington Station, NY 11746-4545
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.
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The public federal record on N343SF, 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 Martin Stephen S, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2003, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 28, 1977, 37 years after the 1940 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 343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N343SF 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 N343SF: Accident on August 18, 2012 at Bayport, NY: 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: Fleet FLEET 16B · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA520 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