Cooper James F SKY RANGER
N538JC is a Cooper James F SKY RANGER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Knox, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated July 9, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cooper James F
- Model
- SKY RANGER
- Serial number
- 0302297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6CEF0 (octal 51547360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · July 9, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00243029
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Binkley Zachary D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4781 E County Road 210
Knox, IN 46534-8485
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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 N538JC, 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 Binkley Zachary D, an individual, certificate issued February 14, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated July 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0302297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N538JC 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 N538JC. 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