Tinckler G/Tinckler A VANS RV6A
N280CA is a Tinckler G/Tinckler A VANS RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Blue Skies Flight Club LLC, an LLC in Cameron Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tinckler G/Tinckler A
- Model
- VANS RV6A
- Serial number
- 24826
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A2CE2E (octal 50547056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 7, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00125689
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Skies Flight Club LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Douglas Bolsover
3229 Baron Ct
Cameron Park, CA 95682-9208
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N280CA, 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 Blue Skies Flight Club LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 7, 2013, 11 years after the 2002 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 24826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280CA 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]
1 NTSB record under N280CA: Accident on July 18, 1992 at Simi Valley, CA: no 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: Schweizer 269C · operated under 091
THE COMPANY'S MAINTENACE PERSONNEL IMPROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE AIRCRAFT'S IDLE RPM AND THE FAILURE OF THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR RPM AFTER THE ENGINE FAILED. THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN TYPE OF OPERATION IS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data