Mcdonnell Douglas TA-4J
N281TA is a Mcdonnell Douglas TA-4J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Boeing Company, a corporation in Berkeley, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training, dated June 15, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- TA-4J
- Serial number
- 153672
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · P & W J52-P-8B · 9,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Transponder code
- A2D35C (octal 50551534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Crew training · June 15, 2024
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00174034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing Company
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Attn: C Wilson Mc S100-4434
6161 Aviation Dr
Berkeley, MO 63134-2019
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N281TA, 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 Boeing Company, a corporation, certificate issued February 26, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2024, 55 years after the 1969 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 153672 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281TA 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 N281TA. 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 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