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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145LR · all EMB-145LRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 145208
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Allison AE 3007A · 7,580 lb thrust
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A116A7 (octal 50213247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00243513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delux Public Charter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84FA321 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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