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N44510

Zimny Paul CHINOOK PLUS 2

Valid Oregon

N44510 is a Zimny Paul CHINOOK PLUS 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Florence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 22, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Zimny Paul
Model
CHINOOK PLUS 2
Serial number
02260X3
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
AIRCRAFT SALES & PARTS LTD CHINOOK PLUS 2
Transponder code
A55FC4 (octal 51257704)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 26, 2019
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 22, 2005
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00183169

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rickford Todd R
Type
Individual
Address
88410 Highway 101
Florence, OR 97439-8850

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

2000-09-22Williams James F JW1 · Valid registration
1994-08-22Piper PA-28-180 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N44510, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rickford Todd R, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 22, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02260X3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N44510 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Williams James F JW1 (serial 007, cancelled September 22, 2000); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287405250, cancelled August 22, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N44510: Accident on April 7, 1989 at Stuarts Draft, VA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

BFO89FA081Accident on April 7, 1989 at Stuarts Draft, VA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 28-7405250

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE ABOVE THE TERRAIN AFTER FLYING VFR INTO IMC. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE LOW CEILING AND FOG CONDITIONS AND THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89FA081 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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