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N43155

Grumman HU-16

N43155 is a Grumman HU-16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Tactical Flight Ops LLC, an LLC in Camarillo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; patrolling; other, dated March 23, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman
Model
HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
Serial number
141276
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
Seats
5
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A529FA (octal 51224772)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Aerial surveying; Patrolling; Other · March 23, 1995
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00665391

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tactical Flight Ops LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2255 Pleasant Valley Rd Ste G
Camarillo, CA 93012-8511

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 2

1984-01-30Piper PA-28RT-201T · exported to Italy · Valid registration
1971-05-26Taylorcraft BC12-D · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N43155, 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 Tactical Flight Ops LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 9, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for aerial surveying; patrolling; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 141276 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N43155 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R-8331049, cancelled January 30, 1984); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 6814, cancelled May 26, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N43155. 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