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N816NA

General Dynamics F-16A

N816NA is a General Dynamics F-16A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to National Aeronautics And Space Administration, a government body in Edwards, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 1993 and expires on August 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
General Dynamics
Model
F-16A
Serial number
82-0976
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbofan, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB20D3 (octal 52620323)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 1, 1993
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00264402

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
National Aeronautics And Space Administration
Type
Government
Address
Attn: James E Coleman III
PO Box 273 M/S 1732
Edwards, CA 93523
Co-owners
Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center

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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1992-04-22Convair NF-106B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1975-05-06Ling-Temco-Vought F-8A · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data