Carter David R CHRISTAVIA MK4
N556PS is a Carter David R CHRISTAVIA MK4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Carter David R
- Model
- CHRISTAVIA MK4
- Serial number
- 124
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A7170B (octal 51613413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 16, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00136681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Potter Mark W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6420 SW Macadam Ave Ste 214
Portland, OR 97239-3518
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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 N556PS, 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 Potter Mark W, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N556PS 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 N556PS. 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