Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320
N153HP is a Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 TC-320, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. 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 22, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 10, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 TC-320 · all GA8 TC-320s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA8-TC-320-16-232
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A0D611 (octal 50153021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 10, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01237104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- California Highway Patrol
- Type
- Government
- 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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N153HP, 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 22, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 10, 2017, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-TC-320-16-232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N153HP 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 N153HP. 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