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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Six Chuter SIX CHUTER SR5
N186AB is a Six Chuter SIX CHUTER SR5, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 30, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Six Chuter
- Model
- SIX CHUTER SR5
- Serial number
- 98 2002 SR5XP
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A156F8 (octal 50253370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 30, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00406949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steffens Edward C
- 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
- 6561 Walker Ave NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49544-9744
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N186AB links to the rest of the register
- Six Chuter 70 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582UL DCDI 100 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Grand Rapids, MI 154 aircraft registered in this town
- Gerald R Ford International · GRR
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N186AB, 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 Steffens Edward C, an individual, certificate issued October 10, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 30, 2008, 10 years after the 1998 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 98 2002 SR5XP for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N186AB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N186AB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data