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Grumman HU 16E
N115FB is a Grumman HU 16E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Freeman Jet LLC, an LLC in Cape Coral, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for delivery or export, dated December 5, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU 16E · all HU 16Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman HU-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
- 148327
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 187 mph
- Transponder code
- A03F45 (octal 50037505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Delivery or exportFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 5, 1977
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00872050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freeman Jet LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6021 Silver King Blvd Unit 1201
Cape Coral, FL 33914-8080
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N115FB links to the rest of the register
- Grumman HU-16 33 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
- Freeman Jet LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to October 28, 2026
- Cape Coral, FL 110 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman HU-16 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman HU-16 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman HU-16 14 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Wright R-1820 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N115FB, 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 Freeman Jet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for delivery or export; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 148327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N115FB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N115FB. 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 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data