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A Titan Aircraft TORNADO II, the same model family as N159SY
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N159SY

Titan Aircraft TORNADO II

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMissouri

N159SY is a Titan Aircraft TORNADO II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Creighton, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 21, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Titan Aircraft
Model
TORNADO II · all TORNADO IIs and related versions
Built of
aluminium tube and fabric
An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Titan Aircraft TORNADO II 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
SS06912SOHK0516
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A0ED45 (octal 50166505)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 22, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2007
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00408619

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vance Samuel J
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
43401 e 329Th St
Creighton, MO 64739-9701

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N159SY links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Creighton, MO 3 aircraft registered in this town
  • Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N159SY.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N159SY, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vance Samuel J, an individual, certificate issued December 22, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 21, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SS06912SOHK0516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N159SY according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N159SY. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data