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N550CH

Hane Carter H LANCAIR ES/FB

N550CH is a Hane Carter H LANCAIR ES/FB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Susman Stan J, a partnership in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 28, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Hane Carter H
Model
LANCAIR ES/FB
Serial number
ES-088-FB
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-G · 280 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6FFA5 (octal 51577645)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 28, 2013
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00506421

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Susman Stan J
Type
Partnership
Address
2310 Kinsley St
Santa Cruz, CA 95062-3514
Co-owners
Louis Darrel W

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N550CH, 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 Susman Stan J, a partnership, certificate issued March 2, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur 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 ES-088-FB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N550CH according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N550CH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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