Blessing RV-3A
N696DB is a Blessing RV-3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blessing
- Model
- RV-3A
- Serial number
- 11083
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A9414D (octal 52240515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 13, 1999
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00605991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson Michael C
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3917 S Polk Ave
Lakeland, FL 33813-1128 - Co-owners
- Carlin Bernard T
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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 N696DB, 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 Robinson Michael C, a co-owned, certificate issued May 9, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 13, 1999, 3 years after the 1996 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 11083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N696DB 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 N696DB: Accident on June 15, 2026 at Lakeland, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Blessing RV-3A · operated under 091
On June 15, 2026, about 1955 eastern daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Van’s RV-3A, N696DB, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Lakeland, Florida. The pilot received fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Review of ADS-B data showed that the pilot departed Bartow executive Airport (BOW), Bartow, Florida, about 1930. A witness, who was also a pilot, stated that he and the accident pilot were going to rendezvous near Orlampa Inc Airport (FA08), Polk City, Florida, and conduct formation flight mane…
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