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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Sweet-Roger ARROW SPORT-S
N16470 is a Sweet-Roger ARROW SPORT-S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sweet-Roger
- Model
- ARROW SPORT-S
- Serial number
- 001
- 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 · Corvair GO-140 · 145 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A103F0 (octal 50201760)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · November 1, 1982
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00282150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11 Museum Rd
Reading, PA 19605-9407
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N16470 links to the rest of the register
- Sweet-Roger 1 aircraft on the register
- Corvair (converted) GO-140 28 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum 74 aircraft in the fleet
- Reading, PA 142 aircraft registered in this town
- Reading Rgnl/Carl A Spaatz Field · RDG
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N16470.json.
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The public federal record on N16470, 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 Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 1982, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16470 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Arrow F (serial 2, cancelled April 27, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N16470. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data