Christen Industries Inc A-1
N51DG is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Orcas Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Orcas, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 9, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1070
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A65F68 (octal 51457550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 9, 1989
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00864411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orcas Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 216
Orcas, WA 98280-0216
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N51DG, 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 Orcas Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 9, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51DG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200 (serial 1031, cancelled November 6, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N51DG: Accident on July 2, 1996 at Wolfeboro, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA-4-200 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing and nose over. The glassy water condition was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC96LA138 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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