James Neely SONEX
N161TX is a James Neely SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mineola, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James Neely
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0324
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A0F724 (octal 50173444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 28, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01136125
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcbride Robert W JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 271 County Road 2355
Mineola, TX 75773-3713
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N161TX, 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 Mcbride Robert W JR, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2014, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161TX 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 N161TX. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data