Christen Industries Inc A-1
N28820 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 Elite Flying Group LLC, an LLC in Northampton, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 23, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1014
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A2EE6A (octal 50567152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 23, 1987
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00185590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elite Flying Group LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 160 Old Ferry Rd
Northampton, MA 01060-2509
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N28820, 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 Elite Flying Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 23, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28820 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B (serial AA5B0839, 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 N28820: Accident on October 3, 1982 at Denver, NC: 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: Grumman AA-5B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA002 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