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N16EW

White TAYLOR COOT-A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N16EW is a White TAYLOR COOT-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elliott Frank F, a partnership in Mojave, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 8, 1979.

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Aircraft

Maker
White
Model
TAYLOR COOT-A
Serial number
26
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 · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A0EFCE (octal 50167716)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 16, 2005
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 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 · November 8, 1979
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00811900

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elliott Frank F
Type
PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7435 35Th St W
Mojave, CA 93501-7304
Co-owners
Elliott Cecilia R

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N16EW links to the rest of the register

Design
  • White 14 aircraft on the register
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N16EW, 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 Elliott Frank F, a partnership, certificate issued November 16, 2005, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 8, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N16EW 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 N16EW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data