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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT
N238BC is a Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morrison, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 17, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- BUSHCAT · all BUSHCATs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT 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
- CH285C
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A22654 (octal 50423124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2025
- 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 · Operating light-sport kit-builtFAA certificate purpose code 8B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 17, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01476140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Kenneth D
- 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
- 6351 Crestbrook Dr
Morrison, CO 80465-2227
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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 N238BC links to the rest of the register
- Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT 18 registered
- Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd 18 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Morrison, CO 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,453 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N238BC, 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 Black Kenneth D, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 17, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH285C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N238BC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: DJI MINI 3 PRO (serial 1581F4XFA238ML82751, cancelled January 4, 2024); Young Robert N GLASAIR III (serial 3099, cancelled April 30, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N238BC: Accident on April 17, 1998 at St. Martinville, LA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Young GLASAIR III · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft as a result of VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions and flight into known adverse weather conditions. Contributing factors were turbulence, clouds, dark night and lack of an instrument rating.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data