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N21790, a Nanchang China CJ-6
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N21790

Nanchang China CJ-6

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N21790 is a Nanchang China CJ-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mills Aviation Charities, a corporation in Flagler Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 31, 2002.

Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 1:45 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Nanchang China
Model
CJ-6 · all CJ-6s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Nanchang China CJ-6 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
4232022
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A1D72F (octal 50353457)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 8, 2019
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 31, 2002
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00315640

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mills Aviation Charities
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1030 Lambert Ave
Flagler Beach, FL 32136-3014

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1995-07-03Cessna 172M · exported to Turkey · Valid registration

Connections how N21790 links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Flagler Beach, FL 15 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N21790, 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 Mills Aviation Charities, a corporation, certificate issued January 8, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4232022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21790 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264020, cancelled July 3, 1995). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N21790. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data