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A Grumman G-164, the same model family as N164JA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N164JA

Grumman G-164

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N164JA is a Grumman G-164, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Candor, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 24, 2021.

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Aircraft

Maker
Grumman
Model
G-164 · all G-164s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The Ag Cat biplane: steel tube, aluminium wings, fabric. This is how the Grumman G-164 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
277
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 · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
98 mph
Transponder code
A10153 (octal 50200523)

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, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 24, 2021
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00361177

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ober John A
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
297 W Candor Rd
Candor, NY 13743-1308

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N164JA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Candor, NY 19 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,669 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N164JA, 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 Ober John A, an individual, certificate issued December 22, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 24, 2021, 59 years after the 1962 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N164JA 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 N164JA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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