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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman HU-16 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 131910
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A95F0C (octal 52257414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- 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 · Crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 5 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 19, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00414361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N7025J links to the rest of the register
- Grumman HU-16 33 registered
- Grumman 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee 287 aircraft in the fleet
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,114 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman HU-16 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman HU-16 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman HU-16 14 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Wright R-1820 series 12 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Piston, damaged · 1995-07-30
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data