Christen Industries Inc A-1
N2868D is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1987. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A2E7B9 (octal 50563671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 5, 1987
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00125530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mayer Larry A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4825 Arapaho Trl
Billings, MT 59106-9611 - Co-owners
- Mayer Joyce L
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2868D, 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 Mayer Larry A, a co-owned, certificate issued May 13, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2868D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 287990507, cancelled date not given). 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 N2868D: Accident on March 3, 1984 at Lewiston, ID: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84FA065 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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