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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD
N787EM is a Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Knox, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TB-20 TRINIDAD · all TB-20 TRINIDADs 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 Daher (Socata) TB-20 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
- 1616
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAAAF7 (octal 52525367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 26, 1994
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00244552
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hughes David R Trustee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7758 Littlefield St
Fort Knox, KY 40121-2387
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N787EM links to the rest of the register
- Daher (Socata) TB-20 200 registered
- Socata 1,057 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,223 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Fort Knox, KY 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Daher (Socata) TB-20 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Daher (Socata) TB-20 41 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Daher (Socata) TB-20 199 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 50 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N787EM, 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 Hughes David R Trustee, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N787EM according to the deregistered file. [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 N787EM. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data