Christen Industries Inc A-1
N42288 is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cresson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1329
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1P · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A5069E (octal 51203236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 18, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01448637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welsh Christopher R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 137 Constellation Dr
Cresson, TX 76035-5839
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42288, 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 Welsh Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 18, 2025, 29 years after the 1996 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 1329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42288 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aero Commander CALLAIR A-9B (serial 1584, cancelled September 13, 2018); Piper J3C-65 (serial 14538, cancelled January 20, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N42288. 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 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