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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.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 7:17 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman HU-16 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 141276
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A529FA (octal 51224772)
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 9, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveying; Patrolling; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 250 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 1995
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00665391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tactical Flight Ops LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N43155 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman HU-16 33 registered
- Grumman 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
- Tactical Flight Ops LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Camarillo, CA 150 aircraft registered in this town
- Camarillo Airport · CMA
- California 27,727 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman HU-16 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman HU-16 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman HU-16 14 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Wright R-1820 series 12 reports since 1995
- Where N43155 is now · Last seen October 17 at 7:17 am.
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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.
Valid registration to Tactical Flight Ops LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 9, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying; patrolling; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 141276 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N43155. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data