Piper PA-16
N5326H 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 Nenana, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-16 · all PA-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16-131
- 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
- A6BB0D (octal 51535415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00802765
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Zant Timothy L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 436
Nenana, AK 99760-0436
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 N5326H, 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 Van Zant Timothy L, an individual, certificate issued May 30, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 1956, 7 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 16-131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5326H 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 N5326H: Accident on March 13, 1997 at Iliamna, AK: no 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: Piper PA-16 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed during the flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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