Christen Industries Inc A-1
N28973 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 an individual in North Pole, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 27, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1018
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A2F2D3 (octal 50571323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 27, 1987
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00423871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coffman Joseph Bryan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1186 Vasi Way
North Pole, AK 99705-5326
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 N28973, 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 Coffman Joseph Bryan, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 27, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28973 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 14-12F-3 (serial 1043, cancelled October 22, 1951). 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 N28973: Accident on September 7, 1998 at Selawik, AK: 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: Christen Industries A-1 HUSKY · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind conditions. Factors in this accident were a crosswind, the pilot's lack of certification, and his inadequate fuel consumption calculations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98LA141 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