Grumman HU-16
N7026C is a Grumman HU-16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Tri-State Warbird Museum, a corporation in Batavia, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 18, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 149836
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820-76D · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1951
- Transponder code
- A95F29 (octal 52257451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 18, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00504361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri-State Warbird Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4021 Borman Dr
Batavia, OH 45103-1684
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7026C, 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 Tri-State Warbird Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 11, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 2025, 74 years after the 1951 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 149836 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7026C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman TBM-3E (serial 69294, cancelled September 10, 1970). 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 N7026C. 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 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