Piper PA-16
N5293H is a Piper PA-16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graham, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 11, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-16 · all PA-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16-97
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A6AD26 (octal 51526446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 11, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00332645
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pierce Stephan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 196 Highway 380 E
Graham, TX 76450
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 N5293H, 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 Pierce Stephan, an individual, certificate issued December 1, 1997, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 11, 1955, 6 years after the 1949 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 16-97 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5293H 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]
1 NTSB record under N5293H: Accident on April 5, 2002 at Lakeland, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-16 · operated under 091
The failure of PA-16 pilot to maintain a visual lookout and to yield the right-of-way to a lower airplane while on final approach resulting in a midair collision. Contributing to the accident was the failure of both pilot's to adhere to an ATC clearance while landing, and the subsequent in-flight collision of both airplanes with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02FA074 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data