Rockwell OV-10D
N16854 is a Rockwell OV-10D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ov10 Squadron LLC, an LLC in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; exhibition, dated July 16, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rockwell
- Model
- OV-10D · all OV-10Ds and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Rockwell OV-10 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
- 155474
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Garrett T-76 · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A1128A (octal 50211212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · Research and development; Crew training; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 153 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 16, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00236321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ov10 Squadron LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3132 Airway Ave
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-4610
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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 N16854 links to the rest of the register
- Rockwell OV-10 13 registered
- Rockwell 14 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Garrett (Honeywell) T-76 8 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Ov10 Squadron LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Costa Mesa, CA 552 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N16854, 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 Ov10 Squadron LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2026, 58 years after the 1968 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 155474 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16854 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild 24 C8F (serial 3134, cancelled September 9, 1994). 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 N16854. 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 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data