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N256BL

Basic Airplane Society Inc BAKENG DUCE

Valid Indiana

N256BL is a Basic Airplane Society Inc BAKENG DUCE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Basic Airplane Society INC, a corporation in Delphi, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 1989 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Basic Airplane Society Inc
Model
BAKENG DUCE
Serial number
121
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1990
Transponder code
A26DEC (octal 50466754)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 1, 1989
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 21, 1990
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00994211

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Basic Airplane Society INC
Type
Corporation
Address
465 N 900 W
Delphi, IN 46923-9097

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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 N256BL, 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 Basic Airplane Society INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 1989, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N256BL 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 N256BL. 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