General Dynamics F-16A
N853TA is a General Dynamics F-16A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Dynamics
- Model
- F-16A · all F-16As and related versions
- Serial number
- 78-0355
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABB427 (octal 52732047)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01460521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Top Aces CORP
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 7852 E Velocity Way
Mesa, AZ 85212
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 N853TA, 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 Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued July 23, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-0355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N853TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild FH-227B (serial 533, cancelled May 14, 1980). 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 N853TA. 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