Smith MINIPLANE
N160F is a Smith MINIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 9, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- MINIPLANE · all MINIPLANEs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A homebuilt biplane: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Smith MINIPLANE 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
- HEF-1
- 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 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F22B (octal 50171053)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 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 9, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00331930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Croxton Malcolm Alan
- 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
- 23505 Adolph Ave
Torrance, CA 90505-4621
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N160F links to the rest of the register
- Smith MINIPLANE 5 registered
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-290 series 2,126 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Torrance, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 series 7 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N160F, 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 Croxton Malcolm Alan, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 9, 1977, 11 years after the 1966 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HEF-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160F 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 N160F. 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