Grumman HU-16
N99TP is a Grumman HU-16, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Amphibian Aerospace Industries Defense INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 26, 1991. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- HU-16 · all HU-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52-7218
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1951
- Transponder code
- ADD201 (octal 53351001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 26, 1991
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00544331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Amphibian Aerospace Industries Defense INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 211 Church St SE
Leesburg, VA 20175-3034
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
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N99TP, 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 Defense INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1991, 40 years after the 1951 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 52-7218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N99TP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 125, cancelled June 7, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N99TP. 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