Piper PA-16
N5656H is a Piper PA-16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Galveston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-16 · all PA-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16-267
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A73CAF (octal 51636257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00192788
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Caldwell Joel
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 16412
Galveston, TX 77552-6412
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 N5656H, 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 Caldwell Joel, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16-267 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5656H 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 N5656H: Accident on September 25, 2021 at Greensboro, GA: 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
The pilot’s inadequate preflight planning and fuel system inspection, which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA392 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
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