Palen NIEUPORT II
N9163A is a Palen NIEUPORT II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation in Rhinebeck, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 30, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Palen
- Model
- NIEUPORT II
- Serial number
- 1915-78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- ACAFB7 (octal 53127667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 30, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00950971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 229
Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0229
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9163A, 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 Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 15, 1995, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 30, 1994, 4 years after the 1990 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 1915-78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9163A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19357, cancelled September 13, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9163A: Accident on August 13, 2005 at Rhinebeck, NY: serious 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: Palen Nieuport 11 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC05LA133 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data