Christen Industries Inc A-1
N2897U 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 Wwe LLC, an LLC in Ridgway, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A2F2CA (octal 50571312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 1, 1987
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00153861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wwe LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 21000 Highway 550
Ridgway, CO 81432-9661
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
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The public federal record on N2897U, 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 Wwe LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2897U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172D (serial 17250497, 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 N2897U: Accident on May 30, 1983 at Portland, OR: minor 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: Cessna 172D · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA83LA111 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
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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