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N153JC

Aircraft Sales And Parts CHINOOK PLUS 2/A

Valid Michigan

N153JC is an Aircraft Sales And Parts CHINOOK PLUS 2/A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Charlotte, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 20, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Aircraft Sales And Parts
Model
CHINOOK PLUS 2/A
Serial number
02223X3
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A0D61F (octal 50153037)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2007
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 20, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00393399

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Caughey Jack A
Type
Individual
Address
7749 Benton Rd
Charlotte, MI 48813-8617

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N153JC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Caughey Jack A, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2007, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 20, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02223X3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N153JC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N153JC: Accident on September 24, 1999 at Snelling, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 11, 1997 at Desert Center, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

LAX99LA318Accident on September 24, 1999 at Snelling, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 3236

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ciernia GLASAIR III · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which failed to ensure that the left fuel filler cap was secure, and his decision to continue flight with a known malfunction in the electric fuel pump. Also causal was the pilot's improper positioning of the fuel selector to the both selection after the siphoning fuel condition was noted from the left tank filler opening, which resulted in fuel exhaustion.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

LAX98LA025Accident on October 11, 1997 at Desert Center, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 3236

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ciernia GLASAIR-III · operated under 091

A loss of engine power due to the eventual loss of electrical power which resulted from the pilot's failure to ensure the alternator switch was on as specified in the before starting checklist. The inoperative alternator out warning light was a factor in this accident.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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