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N16HM

Smith AEROSTAR 600

N16HM is a Smith AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rfs Aviation LLC, an LLC in Greer, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 28, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Smith
Model
AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s and related versions
Serial number
60-0483-156
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
186 mph
Transponder code
A0F010 (octal 50170020)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 26, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 28, 1977
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00311900

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rfs Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
311 Phillips Rd
Greer, SC 29650-2958

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N16HM, 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 Rfs Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 26, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 28, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0483-156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N16HM 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 N16HM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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