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N551SH

Henley Charles D SKYLITE

N551SH is a Henley Charles D SKYLITE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in New London, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2010 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Henley Charles D
Model
SKYLITE
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A704BA (octal 51602272)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 31, 2010
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
February 8, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 25, 2013
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01051088

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Henley Charles D
Type
Individual
Address
1175 Shoreline Dr
New London, NC 28127-6653

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N551SH, 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 Henley Charles D, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2010, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N551SH 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 N551SH. 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