James A Williams PIETENPOL AIRCAMPER
N9863Z is a James A Williams PIETENPOL AIRCAMPER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wheeler, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James A Williams
- Model
- PIETENPOL AIRCAMPER
- Serial number
- JW4352
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A-65 SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- ADC447 (octal 53342107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 2016
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01185827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams James A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 810 W Redstone Rd
Wheeler, MI 48662-9601
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N9863Z, 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 James A, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JW4352 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9863Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial AF-786, cancelled January 14, 1982). 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 N9863Z: Accident on May 23, 2020 at Midland, MI: 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: Pietenpol AIRCAMPER · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of control during an aborted landing.
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