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N16CG

John P Burke CAVALON

N16CG is a John P Burke CAVALON, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bothell, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 16, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
John P Burke
Model
CAVALON
Serial number
V00493
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 915 SERIES · 135 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2022
Kit
AUTOGYRO GMBH CAVALON
Transponder code
A0EF8E (octal 50167616)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 23, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
January 7, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 16, 2022
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01350648

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bishop Colby B
Type
Individual
Address
22108 5Th Dr SE
Bothell, WA 98021-8262

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2002-01-11Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 · Valid registration

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The public federal record on N16CG, 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 Bishop Colby B, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 16, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N16CG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 (serial 418SA, cancelled January 11, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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

1 NTSB record under N16CG: Accident on May 1, 2001 at The Woodlands, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 1

FTW01FA111Accident on May 1, 2001 at The Woodlands, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 418SA

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control following a loss of right engine power, which resulted in impact with terrain in an uncontrolled descent. A contributing factor was the loss of right engine power as a result of the fatigue failure of the propeller shaft coupling.

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