Grumman HU-16B
N8497J is a Grumman HU-16B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 8 seats. It is registered to E-Commerce Education Foundation, a corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated November 22, 1988.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16B · all HU-16Bs 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
- 49-099
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 168 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA49E (octal 52722236)
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 1, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ForestFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 22, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00252831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- E-Commerce Education Foundation
- 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
- 7419 S Jackson Ave
Tulsa, OK 74132-2308
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8497J 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
- E-Commerce Education Foundation 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Tulsa, OK 550 aircraft registered in this town
- Tulsa International · TUL
- Tulsa Riverside Airport · RVS
- Oklahoma 5,661 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
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The public federal record on N8497J, 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 E-Commerce Education Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 22, 1988, 35 years after the 1953 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 49-099 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8497J 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 N8497J. 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 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