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Nanchang China CJ-6
N285CJ is a Nanchang China CJ-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Blue Skies Aviation LLC, an LLC in Gulfport, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 22, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nanchang China
- Model
- CJ-6 · all CJ-6s 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
- 1232003
- 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 · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2E0C9 (octal 50560311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 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 · October 22, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00355522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Skies Aviation 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
- 777 2Nd St
Gulfport, MS 39501-2204
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N285CJ 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
- Vedeneyev M14P 174 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Blue Skies Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate
- Gulfport, MS 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Gulfport-Biloxi International · GPT
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N285CJ, 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 Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 15, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1232003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N285CJ 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 N285CJ. 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