Piper PA-16
N5995H 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 Vancouver, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-16 · all PA-16s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-16 Clipper 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
- 16-623
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A7C1E5 (octal 51740745)
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 21, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00207328
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Robert L
- 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
- 11917 SE 14Th Cir
Vancouver, WA 98683-6213
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 1
Connections how N5995H links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-16 Clipper 276 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Vancouver, WA 201 aircraft registered in this town
- Pearson Field · VUO
- Washington 10,630 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-16 Clipper 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-16 Clipper 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-16 Clipper 172 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N5995H, 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 Williams Robert L, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16-623 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5995H according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 29, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N5995H: Accident on June 18, 2000 at Vancouver, WA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-16 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to determine the aircraft's airworthiness before flight, resulting in operation of the aircraft in an unairworthy condition and consequent fuel starvation, and his subsequent failure to maintain adequate airspeed in an emergency turn back to the airfield, resulting in a stall. Factors included: an unapproved fuel tank installation; the pilot's lack of recurrent flight training; the pilot's lack of recent experience; and the aircraft's low altitude at the time control was lost.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data