Wood Robert L KOLB MARK III
N9896Z is a Wood Robert L KOLB MARK III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tenants Harbor, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 1999 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wood Robert L
- Model
- KOLB MARK III
- Serial number
- M-1078
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- ADCFD5 (octal 53347725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 1999
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 8, 1996
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00236031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vinal Adelbert M JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 163 Wallston Rd
Tenants Harbor, ME 04860-5230
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9896Z, 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 Vinal Adelbert M JR, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 1999, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-1078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9896Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial 52-10618, cancelled August 29, 1961). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9896Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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