Parascender Technologies Inc PARASCENDER 582
N3896V is a Parascender Technologies Inc PARASCENDER 582, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mims, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 29, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Parascender Technologies Inc
- Model
- PARASCENDER 582
- Serial number
- 220088
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A47FF7 (octal 51077767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 29, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00429079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mehaffey Billy H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4595 Alix Ln
Mims, FL 32754-5059
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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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3896V, 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 Mehaffey Billy H, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 29, 2007, 10 years after the 1997 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 220088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3896V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3196, cancelled September 16, 1997). 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 N3896V: Accident on August 22, 1996 at Glenns Ferry, ID: serious 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: Bell 206B · operated under 091
fuel contamination, due to improper servicing of the helicopter, which resulted in an intermittent loss of engine power. A factor relating to the accident was: the pilot's inadequate control of the helicopter, during autorotation with intermittent engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA198 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
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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data