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N155CK

Kettering Charles MURPHY ELITE

Valid Nevada

N155CK is a Kettering Charles MURPHY ELITE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 20, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Kettering Charles
Model
MURPHY ELITE
Serial number
665E
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2003
Kit
MURPHY AIRCRAFT MFG LTD MURPHY ELITE
Transponder code
A0DCFE (octal 50156376)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2006
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 20, 2003
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00038839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kettering Charles W
Type
Individual
Address
4660 Aberfeldy Rd
Reno, NV 89519-0944

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N155CK, 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 Kettering Charles W, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2006, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 20, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 665E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N155CK 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N155CK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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