Grumman HU-16
N7025J 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training, dated January 19, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 131910
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A95F0C (octal 52257414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Crew training · January 19, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00414361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2523 Stieglitz Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-9605
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7025J, 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued April 15, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for crew training; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 131910 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7025J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-4A (serial 7724, cancelled February 15, 1979). 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 N7025J: Accident on September 26, 1998 at Sedona, AZ: 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: Grumman HU-16C · operated under 091
The pilot in command's selection of the wrong runway for the prevailing wind conditions, and the second pilot's inadequate compensation for the winds. Factors in the accident were the second pilot's lack of experience in the aircraft and the pilot-in-command's inadequate supervision of the flight. Additional factors were the variable and gusty, cross wind and tail wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98LA313 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data