Lockheed Martin F-16A
N953TA is a Lockheed Martin F-16A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned as an import, not yet registered". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed Martin
- Model
- F-16A · all F-16As 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 Lockheed Martin F-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
- 80-3551
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD4176 (octal 53240566)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned as an import, not yet registeredFAA registration status code 4 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01573232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- 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 1
Connections how N953TA links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed Martin F-16 18 registered
- Lockheed Martin 28 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N953TA.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N953TA, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned as an import, not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 80-3551 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N953TA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N953TA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data