Grumman HU-16
N888AC is a Grumman HU-16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; weather control; carriage of cargo, dated June 9, 1997.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s 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
- 137926
- 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 · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC3B90 (octal 53035620)
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 17, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2024
- 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 · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Weather control; Carriage of cargoFAA certificate purpose code 124567 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 9, 1997
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00780977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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.
Connections how N888AC links to the rest of the register
- Grumman HU-16 33 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
- 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
- Failure reports on the Wright R-1820 series 12 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N888AC.json.
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The public federal record on N888AC, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued July 17, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; weather control; carriage of cargo; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 137926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N888AC 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 N888AC. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data