Grumman HU 16E
N868KG is a Grumman HU 16E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Amphibian Aerospace Industries INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 30, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU 16E · all HU 16Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 137911
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 187 mph
- Transponder code
- ABED77 (octal 52766567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · May 30, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00654361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Amphibian Aerospace Industries INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 211 Church St SE
Leesburg, VA 20175-3034
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N868KG, 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 Amphibian Aerospace Industries INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 6, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 137911 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N868KG 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 N868KG. 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