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N255C

Robley Carpenter RG-1

Valid Alaska

N255C is a Robley Carpenter RG-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dillingham, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Robley Carpenter
Model
RG-1
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming LIO-360-CIE6 · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A26A43 (octal 50465103)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 23, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 13, 2023
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01362427

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Carpenter Robley T
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 701
Dillingham, AK 99576-0701

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

2013-06-07Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1965-10-07Stinson 108-2 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N255C, 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 Carpenter Robley T, an individual, certificate issued September 23, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N255C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 (serial 536, cancelled June 7, 2013); Stinson 108-2 (serial 108-3255, cancelled October 7, 1965). 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 N255C: Accident on December 23, 1987 at San Salvador: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

MIA88WA074Accident on December 23, 1987 at San Salvador: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-30 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88WA074 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