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N3686Z

Guan Zhangyu WINGS 4039

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectricNew York
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N3686Z is a Guan Zhangyu WINGS 4039, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Guan Zhangyu
Model
WINGS 4039 · all WINGS 4039s and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Guan Zhangyu WINGS 4039 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
1426BQ04UB403919
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A42D46 (octal 51026506)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 19, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 19, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01480740

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Guan Zhangyu
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
230 Davis Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-2500

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

2016-07-29Piper PA-18-150 · Third notice for re-registration or renewal

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The public federal record on N3686Z, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Guan Zhangyu, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1426BQ04UB403919 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3686Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-7419, cancelled July 29, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3686Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data