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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Smith Herschel B RV-9A
N16BL is a Smith Herschel B RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Unicoi, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 18, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:10 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Herschel B
- Model
- RV-9A
- Serial number
- 91314
- 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 · Eci IOX-360 · 188 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A0EF79 (octal 50167571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 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 · August 18, 2026
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01022994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hood Tommy D
- 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
- 136 Country Club Dr
Unicoi, TN 37692-6410
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.
Connections how N16BL links to the rest of the register
- Smith Herschel B 1 aircraft on the register
- ECi IOX-360 26 aircraft with this engine series · 188 hp
- Unicoi, TN 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,522 aircraft registered
- Where N16BL is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:10 pm.
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The public federal record on N16BL, 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 Hood Tommy D, an individual, certificate issued March 17, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 2026, 17 years after the 2009 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 91314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16BL according to the deregistered file. [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 N16BL. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data