{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-10-29","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-09-27","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":168,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67020","engine_horsepower":1475,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"R-1820 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-06","maker":"Grumman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GRUMMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3950408","mode_s_code":"53325202","mode_s_hex":"ADAA82","model":"HU-16B","n_number":"N98TP","name":"TROUSDALE AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98TP is a Grumman HU-16B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Trousdale Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 29, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Trousdale Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 27, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 2007, 56 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51-7186 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98TP 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N98TP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"51-7186","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1209 N ORANGE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00142634","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98TP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1951,"zip":"198011120"}