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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026John 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- John P Burke
- Model
- CAVALON
- Serial number
- V00493
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 915 SERIES · 135 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH CAVALON
- Transponder code
- A0EF8E (octal 50167616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 16, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01350648
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bishop Colby B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N16CG links to the rest of the register
- John P Burke 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 915 series 41 aircraft with this engine series · 135 hp
- Bothell, WA 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 1996-02-16
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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.
Valid registration to Bishop Colby B, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 16, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N16CG: Accident on May 1, 2001 at The Woodlands, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
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.
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data