Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A
N56TA is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oil Trough, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 23, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1A · all A-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1420
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A7263B (octal 51623073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 23, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00697231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barber Jason L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 17
Oil Trough, AR 72564-0017
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N56TA, 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 Barber Jason L, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 23, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56TA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fairchild SA226-T (serial T232, cancelled October 31, 1994); Beech AT-11 (serial 41-27629, cancelled March 24, 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]
1 NTSB record under N56TA: Accident on September 22, 2024 at Taft, CA: no injuries, substantial 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: Aviat Aircraft INC A-1A · operated under 091
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during landing roll and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA316 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