General Dynamics F-16A
N871TA is a General Dynamics F-16A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1980. 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 October 4, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training, dated August 27, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Dynamics
- Model
- F-16A · all F-16As and related versions
- Serial number
- 80-0661
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 1 motor · P & W F100-PW200 · 23,770 lb thrust
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- ABFBB7 (octal 52775667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Crew training · August 27, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01378366
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.
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The public federal record on N871TA, 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 October 4, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2025, 45 years after the 1980 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 80-0661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N871TA 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 N871TA. 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