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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Mcdonnell 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- TA-4J
- Serial number
- 153672
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W J52-P-8B · 9,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Transponder code
- A2D35C (octal 50551534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- 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 · Research and development; Crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 15 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 15, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00174034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing Company
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N281TA links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas 254 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney J52-P-8B 6 aircraft with this engine series · 9,300 lb thrust
- Boeing Company 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Berkeley, MO 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
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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 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