Grumman HU 16E
N29853 is a Grumman HU 16E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Flight Management Resources LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated January 23, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU 16E · all HU 16Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 51-7246
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820-76A · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 187 mph
- Transponder code
- A31655 (octal 50613125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · January 23, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00460853
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flight Management Resources LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N29853, 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 Flight Management Resources LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 6, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2008, 51 years after the 1957 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 51-7246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29853 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-65 (serial 2704, cancelled May 19, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N29853. 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