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N959NA

Northrop T-38A

Valid Texas

N959NA is a Northrop T-38A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to National Aeronautics And Space Administration, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 1972 and expires on March 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Northrop
Model
T-38A
Serial number
70-1550
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 2 motors
Seats
2
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
442 mph
Transponder code
AD5743 (octal 53253503)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 4, 1972
Expires
March 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00724410

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