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N56081

Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N56081 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 Bavarian Barnstormers 2 INC, a non-citizen corporation in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 21, 1956.

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Aircraft

Maker
Ryan Aeronautical
Model
ST3KR · all ST3KRs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
1926
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
1942
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A72A74 (octal 51625164)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 20, 2013
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 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 · December 21, 1956
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00390186

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bavarian Barnstormers 2 INC
Type
Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
18553 Baseleg Ave
Fort Myers, FL 33917-7102

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Documents on file 0

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Connections how N56081 links to the rest of the register

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Engine
Owner
Place
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The public federal record on N56081, 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 Bavarian Barnstormers 2 INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued August 20, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 21, 1956, 14 years after the 1942 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N56081 according to the deregistered file. [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 N56081. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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