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N946NA

Grumman G-1159

Valid Texas

N946NA is a Grumman G-1159, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1974. It has 22 seats. It is registered to National Aeronautics And Space Administration, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 1975 and expires on May 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Grumman
Model
G-1159
Serial number
146
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 2 motors
Seats
22
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
438 mph
Transponder code
AD249F (octal 53222237)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 2, 1975
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00660081

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
National Aeronautics And Space Administration
Type
Government
Address
C/O Richard N Clark
Bldg 276 Ellington Field
Houston, TX 77034

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.

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