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N23021

Nanchang China CJ-6A

N23021 is a Nanchang China CJ-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marina, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Nanchang China
Model
CJ-6A · all CJ-6As and related versions
Serial number
2232019
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A20B38 (octal 50405470)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 2, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00806401

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Selby James
Type
Individual
Address
3008 Jean St
Marina, CA 93933-4011

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

1995-01-12Bell 222 · exported to Brazil · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
1970-09-04Luscombe 8A · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N23021, 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 Selby James, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2232019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N23021 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 222 (serial 47083, cancelled January 12, 1995); Luscombe 8A (serial 944, cancelled September 4, 1970). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N23021: Incident on January 11, 1983 at Houston, TX: no injuries. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW83IA084Incident on January 11, 1983 at Houston, TX: no injuries.serial on NTSB record: 47083

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 222 · operated under 135

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83IA084 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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