Christen Industries Inc A-1
N2898D is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Merritt Robert L, a partnership in Afton, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2F2DE (octal 50571336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00143861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merritt Robert L
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 561
Afton, WY 83110-0561 - Co-owners
- Gwynn Richard B
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2898D, 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 Merritt Robert L, a partnership, certificate issued August 12, 2005, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2898D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 327940188, 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]
3 NTSB records under N2898D: Accident on December 20, 2004 at Terreton, ID: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 10, 1994 at Tinnie, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 20, 1984 at Bruce, WI: fatal, destroyed (2 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Christen Industries A-1 · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed while maneuvering which resulted in an inadvertent stall and subsequent collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA05TA028 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Christen Industries A-1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94T#A04 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85FA020 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