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N5016S

Tubbs Shaun PA12-BOYER SUPER CUB

Valid Iowa

N5016S is a Tubbs Shaun PA12-BOYER SUPER CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Pocahontas, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 25, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Tubbs Shaun
Model
PA12-BOYER SUPER CUB
Serial number
01
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2003
Kit
PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT LEGEND
Transponder code
A640E2 (octal 51440342)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 2019
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 25, 2003
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00001839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mccartan Gary
Type
Co-owned
Address
51217 225Th Ave
Pocahontas, IA 50574-8601
Co-owners
Mccartan Beth

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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 2

1998-11-06Cacek Thomas E BARNETT J-3M · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1979-03-08Piper PA-28R-200 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5016S, 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 Mccartan Gary, a co-owned, certificate issued August 28, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 25, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5016S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cacek Thomas E BARNETT J-3M (serial TC2, cancelled November 6, 1998); Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-35747, cancelled March 8, 1979). 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 N5016S. 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 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