Grumman HU-16
N7025N is a Grumman HU-16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bussted LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 22, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 141262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1955
- Transponder code
- A95F10 (octal 52257420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 22, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00454361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bussted LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7025N, 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 Bussted LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 8, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 22, 2025, 70 years after the 1955 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 141262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7025N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech H-18 (serial BA-751, cancelled November 13, 1967). 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 N7025N: Accident on August 2, 1994 at St. Ignace, MI: fatal, minor 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-16 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW GOOD SEAPLANE OPERATING PRACTICES BY TAXIING WITH POWER AT FORWARD THRUST, WITH A TAILWIND, AT A SPEED THAT NECESSITATED USING REVERSE THRUST TO ARREST THE EXCESSIVE SPEED, AND THE PILOT'S MISJUDGMENT OF HIS DISTANCE FROM THE BOAT. THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT PROPELLER REVERSING SYSTEM WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94FA262 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