Nanchang China CJ-6A
N257BP is a Nanchang China CJ-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gunner Investments LLC, an LLC in Lomita, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 10, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nanchang China
- Model
- CJ-6A · all CJ-6As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Nanchang China CJ-6 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
- 2432072
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Transponder code
- A271A6 (octal 50470646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 10, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00305252
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gunner Investments LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2017 Lomita Blvd # 2093
Lomita, CA 90717-1701
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N257BP links to the rest of the register
- Nanchang China CJ-6 162 registered
- Nanchang China 175 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Gunner Investments LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lomita, CA 17 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N257BP, 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 Gunner Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 6, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 2002, 30 years after the 1972 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 2432072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257BP 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 N257BP. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data