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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Johnson William M TROJAN TA-16
N1378J is a Johnson William M TROJAN TA-16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aeronautics INC, a corporation in Vero Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 6, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Johnson William M
- Model
- TROJAN TA-16
- Serial number
- 10
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A098AB (octal 50114253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 6, 1983
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00881201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeronautics INC
- 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
- 1550 S 42Nd Cir #308
Vero Beach, FL 32967
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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
Connections how N1378J links to the rest of the register
- Johnson William M 3 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Aeronautics INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Vero Beach, FL 575 aircraft registered in this town
- Vero Beach Regional · VRB
- New Hibiscus Airpark · X52
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 50 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1378J, 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 Aeronautics INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 18, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 6, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1378J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 112 (serial 378, cancelled April 15, 1980). 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 N1378J. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data