{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-02-18","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-03","city":"RENO","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30242","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"J85-21C","engine_thrust_lb":3600,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Northrop","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"NORTHROP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"645035E","mode_s_code":"51600425","mode_s_hex":"A70115","model":"F-5E","n_number":"N550TA","name":"TACTICAL AIR SUPPORT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CINCINNATI","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-12-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL90FA040","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE CESSNA PILOT TO REMAIN CLEAR OF THE HELICOPTER AFTER EXPERIENCING A PARTIAL POWER LOSS.","registration":"N550TA","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on December 17, 1989 at Cincinnati, OH: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N550TA is a Northrop F-5E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tactical Air Support INC, a corporation in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 18, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tactical Air Support INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 3, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 18, 2025, 50 years after the 1975 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-0497 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N550TA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N550TA: Accident on December 17, 1989 at Cincinnati, OH: fatal, substantial damage (1 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"75-0497","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14505 MOUNT ANDERSON ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"01252772","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N550TA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"895061244"}