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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT
N338BC is a Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Taylorsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 18, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- BUSHCAT · all BUSHCATs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CH161C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3B3A3 (octal 50731643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 2016
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01194223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burke John W JR
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 227 Airport Rd
Taylorsville, KY 40071-9508
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N338BC links to the rest of the register
- Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT 29 registered
- Rainbow Sky Reach (Pty) Ltd 29 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Taylorsville, KY 42 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,985 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Latch, corroded · 2015-09-29
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rib, cracked · 2015-08-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Strap, cracked · 2015-07-27
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N338BC.json.
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The public federal record on N338BC, 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 Burke John W JR, an individual, certificate issued August 5, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH161C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N338BC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N338BC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data