Fleet 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fleet
- Model
- FLEET 16B · all FLEET 16Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 491
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner B5 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- AC07D0 (octal 53003720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 1985
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 5, 1982
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00302161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wehman Ernest A JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 128 Pelzer Dr
Summerville, SC 29485-9703
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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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]
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: Fleet 16B · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper use of the brakes while taxiing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA002 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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