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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR
N56046 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carmichael, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for other, dated March 25, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan Aeronautical
- Model
- ST3KR · all ST3KRs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ryan ST: an aluminium fuselage with fabric-covered wings. This is how the Ryan Aeronautical ST3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Kinner R5 SERIES · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A729ED (octal 51624755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code O (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 25, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00226139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Michael J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4950 Sudbury Way
Carmichael, CA 95608-6068
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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 1
Connections how N56046 links to the rest of the register
- Ryan Aeronautical ST3 117 registered
- Ryan Aeronautical 168 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Kinner R5 series 157 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Carmichael, CA 33 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Ryan Aeronautical ST3 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Ryan Aeronautical ST3 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Ryan Aeronautical ST3 30 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N56046, 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 Anderson Michael J, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 25, 2019, 78 years after the 1941 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 1003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56046 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287305522, cancelled April 30, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N56046. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data