{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-01-30","airworthiness_ops":"Crew training","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-17","city":"MESA","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52378","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"F100-PW200","engine_thrust_lb":23770,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-17","maker":"Lockheed Martin","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LOCKHEED MARTIN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5260429","mode_s_code":"52752070","mode_s_hex":"ABD438","model":"F-16A","n_number":"N861TA","name":"TOP ACES CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MCGRATH","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-01-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC98LA014","probable_cause":"The ingestion of snow into the windshield anti-ice system, and the resulting obscured windshield which made runway alignment not possible.  Factors associated with this accident were the cold windshield, the reduced performance of the windshield anti-ice because of the short taxi by the crew, and the insufficient information on the system provided by the manufacturer.","registration":"N861TA","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on January 2, 1998 at Mcgrath, AK: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"BELUGA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-04-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC96LA042","probable_cause":"The Pilot-in-Command's selection of an unsuitable terrain area for taxi/parking and his misjudgment of the clearance required.","registration":"N861TA","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on April 1, 1996 at Beluga, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N861TA is a Lockheed Martin F-16A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training, dated January 30, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Top Aces CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued February 17, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 30, 2025, 47 years after the 1978 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 78-0326 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N861TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 43522, cancelled April 20, 1998). 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":"2 NTSB records under N861TA: Accident on January 2, 1998 at Mcgrath, AK: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on April 1, 1996 at Beluga, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":1,"serial_number":"78-0326","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7852 E VELOCITY WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01349715","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N861TA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"852126637"}