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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Mcdougall/Douglas TA-4J
N518TA is a Mcdougall/Douglas TA-4J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aquila Aero LLC, an LLC in Denison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 26, 2010.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:19 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdougall/Douglas
- Model
- TA-4J
- Serial number
- MD 14291
- 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 · P & W J52-P-8B · 9,300 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A680D1 (octal 51500321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 26, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00364129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aquila Aero 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
- 15 Creekside Dr
Denison, TX 75020-8909
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N518TA links to the rest of the register
- Mcdougall/Douglas 1 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney J52-P-8B 6 aircraft with this engine series · 9,300 lb thrust
- Aquila Aero LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Denison, TX 88 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
- Where N518TA is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:19 am.
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The public federal record on N518TA, 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 Aquila Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 2, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 26, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MD 14291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N518TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild FH-227 (serial 502, cancelled June 23, 1981). 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 N518TA. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data