Nanchang China CJ-6
N2181W is a Nanchang China CJ-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 28, 2014.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 5:39 pm.
Last seen October 17 at 5:39 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nanchang China
- Model
- CJ-6 · all CJ-6s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 3732011
- 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
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A1D9CA (octal 50354712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · October 28, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00325640
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcnerney Robert T
- 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
- 82 Narcissa Dr
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-5910
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 2
Connections how N2181W links to the rest of the register
- Nanchang China CJ-6 162 registered
- Nanchang China 175 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rch Palos Vrd, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,727 aircraft registered
- Where N2181W is now · Last seen October 17 at 5:39 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2181W.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2181W, 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 Mcnerney Robert T, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 28, 2014, 32 years after the 1982 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 3732011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2181W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T303 (serial T30300050, cancelled July 19, 1996); Beech C23 (serial M1561, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2181W. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data