Christopher J Esh CHINOOK DR
N4988T is a Christopher J Esh CHINOOK DR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Girdwood, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 11, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christopher J Esh
- Model
- CHINOOK DR
- Serial number
- 02327AM
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Yamaha ALL MDLS A/B
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- AEROPLANE MANUFACTORY CHINOOK DR
- Transponder code
- A63152 (octal 51430522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 11, 2023
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01344714
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Esh Christopher J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1197
Girdwood, AK 99587-1197
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4988T, 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 Esh Christopher J, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 11, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02327AM for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4988T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-4 (serial 10811, cancelled March 3, 2011). 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 N4988T. 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