Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320
N139HP is a Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 8 seats. It is registered to California Highway Patrol, a government body in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2016.
Where is it now Last seen November 3 at 10:29 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 TC-320 · all GA8 TC-320s 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 Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 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
- GA8-TC-320-15-224
- 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 TIO-540-AH1A · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A09D5D (octal 50116535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 9, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01205678
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- California Highway Patrol
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 601 N 7Th St
Sacramento, CA 95811-0208 - Co-owners
- Office of Air Operations
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N139HP links to the rest of the register
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 32 registered
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd 32 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 89 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- California Highway Patrol 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Sacramento, CA 333 aircraft registered in this town
- Sacramento Executive · SAC
- Sacramento International · SMF
- Sacramento Mather Airport · MHR
- MC Clellan Airfield · MCC
- California 28,134 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 51 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A 28 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Structure, cracked · 2004-03-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2003-12-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2003-12-17
- Where N139HP is now · Last seen November 3 at 10:29 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N139HP.json.
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The public federal record on N139HP, 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 California Highway Patrol, a government body, certificate issued August 1, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-TC-320-15-224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N139HP 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 N139HP. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data