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N861TA

Lockheed Martin F-16A

Valid Arizona

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed Martin
Model
F-16A
Serial number
78-0326
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbofan, 1 motor · P & W F100-PW200 · 23,770 lb thrust
Seats
1
Year built
1978
Transponder code
ABD438 (octal 52752070)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 17, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 17, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Crew training · January 30, 2025
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01349715

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Top Aces CORP
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
7852 E Velocity Way
Mesa, AZ 85212-6637

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 1

1998-04-20Douglas DC-6B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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