Smith AEROSTAR 601
N128AC is a Smith AEROSTAR 601, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cga Holdings LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601 · all AEROSTAR 601s and related versions
- Serial number
- 61-0170-084
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A0716D (octal 50070555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 12, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00543240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cga Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N128AC, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Cga Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 12, 1981, 7 years after the 1974 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61-0170-084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N128AC according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N128AC: Accident on November 8, 2001 at Danville, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Smith Aerostar 601 · operated under 091
The separation of the main landing gear scissor assembly during landing for undetermined reasons, resulting in the directional control of the airplane not being possible.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA022 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data