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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Rausch Richard Robert CH 801
N228MJ is a Rausch Richard Robert CH 801, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Richwood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rausch Richard Robert
- Model
- CH 801
- Serial number
- 85387
- 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 · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 801
- Transponder code
- A1FFD5 (octal 50377725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 13, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00452889
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waldrip Johnny K
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 120 Raven St
Richwood, TX 77531-2040 - Co-owners
- Waldrip Cindy W
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N228MJ links to the rest of the register
- Rausch Richard Robert 1 aircraft on the register
- Mattituck TMX 360 81 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Richwood, TX 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N228MJ, 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 Waldrip Johnny K, a co-owned, certificate issued March 12, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 13, 2026, 19 years after the 2007 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 85387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228MJ 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 N228MJ. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data