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N459UC

Douglas C Cockes CHINOOK PLUS 2

Valid Colorado

N459UC is a Douglas C Cockes CHINOOK PLUS 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cimarron, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Douglas C Cockes
Model
CHINOOK PLUS 2
Serial number
02201 XS
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2012
Kit
CANADIAN ULTRALIGHT MFG LTD CHINOOK PLUS 2
Transponder code
A59550 (octal 51312520)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 29, 2011
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 31, 2012
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01083289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cockes Douglas C
Type
Individual
Address
123 Ridge Rd
Cimarron, CO 81220-9523

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N459UC, 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 Cockes Douglas C, an individual, certificate issued November 29, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02201 XS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N459UC according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N459UC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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