Mikoyan Gurevich MIG 21 UM
N1165 is a Mikoyan Gurevich MIG 21 UM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to National Test Pilot School, a corporation in Mojave, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 10, 1997.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mikoyan Gurevich
- Model
- MIG 21 UM · all MIG 21 UMs 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 Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-21 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
- 0165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A04584 (octal 50042604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 10, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00056291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Test Pilot School (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 658
Mojave, CA 93502-0658
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 2
Connections how N1165 links to the rest of the register
- Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-21 23 registered
- Mikoyan Gurevich 45 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- National Test Pilot School 35 aircraft in the fleet
- Mojave, CA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Mojave Air & Space Port/Rutan Field · MHV
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1165.json.
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The public federal record on N1165, 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 National Test Pilot School, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1165 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Rainier William A COUGAR I (serial NW 1, cancelled date not given); Matthews Frank CURTISS JN4D (serial UNKNOWN, cancelled date not given). 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 N1165. 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