Piper PA-16
N5945H 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 Bear Creek, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 3, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-16 · all PA-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16-568
- 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
- A7AF52 (octal 51727522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 3, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00381965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccoy David L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- W9958 State Road 76
Bear Creek, WI 54922-9759
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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 N5945H, 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 Mccoy David L, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2006, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 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 16-568 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5945H 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 N5945H: Accident on February 5, 2011 at Lake Koshkonong, WI: minor 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
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons during a low-altitude pass over a frozen lake.
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 September 30, 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