Jacobs Donald RV6-A
N196DJ is a Jacobs Donald RV6-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elkhart, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 20, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jacobs Donald
- Model
- RV6-A
- Serial number
- 21982
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A17EC9 (octal 50277311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 20, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00856001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chaffin James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2551 Acr 179
Elkhart, TX 75839
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N196DJ, 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 Chaffin James, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21982 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196DJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N196DJ: Accident on September 11, 2020 at Melbourne, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV6 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data