Nichols Clay D NICHOLS 2000
N45CN is a Nichols Clay D NICHOLS 2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Patterson, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nichols Clay D
- Model
- NICHOLS 2000
- Serial number
- H2-99-10-400
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru EJ22 · 280 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF-2000
- Transponder code
- A57002 (octal 51270002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 15, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00133774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Abney Stanley Don
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4400 Highway 182 W
Patterson, LA 70392-5908
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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 N45CN, 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 Abney Stanley Don, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H2-99-10-400 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45CN 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 N45CN. 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