{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-12-19","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-09-13","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03030","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"AE 3007A","engine_thrust_lb":7580,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-12","maker":"Embraer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EMBRAER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3260212","mode_s_code":"50213247","mode_s_hex":"A116A7","model":"EMB-145LR","n_number":"N16981","name":"DELUX PUBLIC CHARTER LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DALLAS","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-07-24","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW84FA321","probable_cause":"","registration":"N16981","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 24, 1984 at Dallas, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N16981 is an Embraer EMB-145LR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 55 seats. It is registered to Delux Public Charter LLC, an LLC in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Delux Public Charter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145208 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N16981 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2347, cancelled September 22, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N16981: Accident on July 24, 1984 at Dallas, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":55,"serial_number":"145208","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7201 LEMMON AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00243513","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N16981","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"752093011"}