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N228BC

Chaisson Bruce MARK III CLASSIC

Valid Virginia

N228BC is a Chaisson Bruce MARK III CLASSIC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Caret, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 27, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Chaisson Bruce
Model
MARK III CLASSIC
Serial number
M304-3-00041
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
NEW KOLB AIRCRAFT MARK III CLASSIC
Transponder code
A1FED5 (octal 50377325)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 19, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 27, 2006
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00262709

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lewis John W
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 196
Caret, VA 22436-0196

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N228BC, 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 Lewis John W, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 27, 2006, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M304-3-00041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N228BC according to the deregistered file. [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 N228BC. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data