Craighead Kenneth R CORBIN JR ACE E
N30CK is a Craighead Kenneth R CORBIN JR ACE E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Simms, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 11, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Craighead Kenneth R
- Model
- CORBIN JR ACE E
- Serial number
- C-002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A31D35 (octal 50616465)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 11, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00365082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jackson Gary
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 113 Private Road 67007
Simms, TX 75574-4972
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N30CK, 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 Jackson Gary, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 1997, 3 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C-002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N30CK according to the deregistered file. [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 N30CK: Accident on February 6, 1995 at Athens, TX: 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: Craighead CORBEN JR. ACE · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA108 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