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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000
N263AM is an Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greensboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co
- Model
- CH 2000 · all CH 2000s 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 Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000 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
- 20-1049
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A28A2E (octal 50505056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 22, 2004
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00142489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carmichael Joel e
- 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
- 4422 Brookhaven Dr
Greensboro, NC 27406-9301
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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 1
Connections how N263AM links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000 38 registered
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co 70 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,132 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Greensboro, NC 183 aircraft registered in this town
- Piedmont Triad International · GSO
- Air Harbor Airport · W88
- Greensboro Executive · 3A4
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oil Cooler, cracked · 2012-04-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N263AM.json.
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The public federal record on N263AM, 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 Carmichael Joel e, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20-1049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N263AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mrotek Arnold A MINICAB GY-20 (serial 232A, cancelled July 25, 1997). 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 N263AM: Accident on August 10, 1996 at Albion, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mrotek MINICAB GY20 · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudgment of distance and altitude during the approach to land, and his failure to attain the proper touchdown point. Factors relating to the accident were: the uneven and uphill terrain conditions at the approach end of the airstrip.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data