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N521BC

Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT

Valid Maine

N521BC is a Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bangor, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 5, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd
Model
BUSHCAT · all BUSHCATs and related versions
Serial number
CH185C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A68CC1 (octal 51506301)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 27, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 27, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · July 5, 2023
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01396514

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
St Louis Michael A
Type
Individual
Address
125 Burleigh Rd
Bangor, ME 04401-2509

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

2011-10-06Yakovlev YAK-55M · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N521BC, 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 St Louis Michael A, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH185C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N521BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Yakovlev YAK-55M (serial 961007, cancelled October 6, 2011). 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 N521BC: Accident on August 20, 2011 at Hammonton, NJ: fatal, substantial damage (1 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

ERA11FA468Accident on August 20, 2011 at Hammonton, NJ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 961007

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Yakovlev YAK-55M · operated under 091

The Lancair pilot's failure to see and avoid the aerobatic airplane. Contributing to the accident was the Lancair pilot's inadequate use of collision avoidance strategies while inbound to an area of known potential aerobatic activity.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11FA468 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