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N481TA, a Dassault-Breguet/Dornier ALPHA JET MODEL A
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N481TA

Dassault-Breguet/Dornier ALPHA JET MODEL A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N481TA is a Dassault-Breguet/Dornier ALPHA JET MODEL A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

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Aircraft

Maker
Dassault-Breguet/Dornier
Model
ALPHA JET MODEL A
Serial number
040
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A5EDFA (octal 51366772)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 25, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
September 29, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01518131

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Top Aces CORP
Type
Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7852 e Velocity Way
Mesa, AZ 85212-6637

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 1

2026-10-13Loan or lien (security agreement)

Connections how N481TA links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Dassault-Breguet/Dornier 3 aircraft on the register
Owner
Place
  • Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
  • Falcon Field · FFZ
  • Arizona 8,415 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N481TA, 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 Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N481TA according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 13, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N481TA. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data