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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Fleet FLEET 16B
N8742 is a Fleet FLEET 16B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Summerville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 1985 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 5, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fleet
- Model
- FLEET 16B · all FLEET 16Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Fleet FLEET 16 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
- 491
- 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 · Kinner B5 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- AC07D0 (octal 53003720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 1985
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 5, 1982
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00302161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wehman Ernest A JR
- 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
- 128 Pelzer Dr
Summerville, SC 29485-9703
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8742 links to the rest of the register
- Fleet FLEET 16 26 registered
- Fleet 92 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Kinner B5 series 75 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Summerville, SC 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Summerville Airport · DYB
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Fleet FLEET 16 10 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8742, 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 Wehman Ernest A JR, an individual, certificate issued November 27, 1985, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 1982, 43 years after the 1939 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 491 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8742 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 N8742: Accident on October 1, 2010 at Lake City, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fleet 16B · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper use of the brakes while taxiing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data