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Embraer EMB-145LR
N16981 is an Embraer EMB-145LR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 55 seats. It is registered to Delux Public Charter LLC, an LLC in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145LR · all EMB-145LRs 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 Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 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
- 145208
- 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
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Allison AE 3007A · 7,580 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A116A7 (octal 50213247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00243513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delux Public Charter 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
- 7201 Lemmon Ave
Dallas, TX 75209-3011
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N16981 links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 313 registered
- Embraer 663 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) AE 3007A 83 aircraft with this engine series · 7,580 lb thrust
- Delux Public Charter LLC 75 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,863 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 128 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 52,535 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 87 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) AE 3007A 3,309 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Inverter, inoperative · 2019-04-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coffeemaker, odor · 2019-02-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bushing, worn · 2019-01-15
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N16981.json.
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The public federal record on N16981, 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 Delux Public Charter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16981 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2347, cancelled September 22, 1988). 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]
1 NTSB record under N16981: Accident on July 24, 1984 at Dallas, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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