Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR
N48996 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan Aeronautical
- Model
- ST3KR · all ST3KRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2181
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner R5 SERIES · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A60DBA (octal 51406672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00158298
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weselmann Randall C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4 Way West Airpark
Bainbridge, IN 46105-9572
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 N48996, 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 Weselmann Randall C, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2010, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2181 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48996 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48996. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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