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N36YR

Mcdaniel James D TROJAN TA16

Valid Michigan

N36YR is a Mcdaniel James D TROJAN TA16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ortonville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdaniel James D
Model
TROJAN TA16
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Gm LS1 · 345 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A40C29 (octal 51006051)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 9, 2016
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 2017
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01238247

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcdaniel James D
Type
Individual
Address
2180 Hidden Lake Trl
Ortonville, MI 48462-8934

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N36YR, 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 Mcdaniel James D, an individual, certificate issued December 9, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N36YR 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N36YR: Accident on June 2, 2022 at Ray, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN22LA251Accident on June 2, 2022 at Ray, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Trojan TA16 · operated under 091

A lack of lubrication and inadequate cooling, which resulted in internal damage to the engine and a subsequent total loss of engine power.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA251 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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