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N44816

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3

N44816 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Swager Shannon D, a partnership in Ione, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Naval Aircraft Factory
Model
N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
Serial number
2989
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
94 mph
Transponder code
A56AEF (octal 51265357)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 8, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01045096

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Swager Shannon D
Type
Partnership
Address
200 Mustang Aly
Ione, CA 95640-7202
Co-owners
Swager Joel P

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

2013-06-11Harvey Mitchell B CONDOR III + 2 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N44816, 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 Swager Shannon D, a partnership, certificate issued December 8, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. 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 2989 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N44816 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Harvey Mitchell B CONDOR III + 2 (serial 83-140-3-2, cancelled June 11, 2013). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N44816: Accident on March 10, 1985 at Lake Placid, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 15, 1984 at Lake Placid, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

MIA85LA114Accident on March 10, 1985 at Lake Placid, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 83-140-3-2

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitchell Harvey CONDOR III +2 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

MIA84LA079Accident on February 15, 1984 at Lake Placid, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 83-1403+2

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Harvey CONDOR 3+2 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA84LA079 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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