Grumman HU 16A
N43GL is a Grumman HU 16A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Trousdale Aviation LLC, an LLC in West Hollywood, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU 16A · all HU 16As and related versions
- Serial number
- 142360
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 187 mph
- Transponder code
- A52166 (octal 51220546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00524361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trousdale Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9125 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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.
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The public federal record on N43GL, 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 Trousdale Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 142360 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43GL 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]
1 NTSB record under N43GL: Incident on May 18, 2000 at Barbados: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman HU16A · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00WA178 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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