Faust 3
N5901V is a Faust 3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Faust
- Model
- 3
- Serial number
- 301
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS165 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A79FF6 (octal 51717766)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00451835
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Booth James L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 58 Trails End Rd
Bozeman, MT 59715-9268
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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 N5901V, 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 Booth James L, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 1996, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2005, 36 years after the 1969 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 301 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5901V 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 N5901V: Accident on June 30, 2025 at Harrison, MT: 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: Faust 3 · operated under 091
On June 30, 2025, about 1200 mountain daylight time, an experimental amateur built Faust 3, N5901V, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Harrison, Montana. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that he was performing a water landing in the float equipped airplane on Willow Creek Reservoir near Harrison. Shortly after touch down, the airplane pulled to the left. The wings subsequently struck the water before the airplane came to a stop, which resul…
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- 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