Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N55HU is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kaihai CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A6FDD4 (octal 51576724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00526072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kaihai CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55HU, 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 Kaihai CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 7, 2006, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55HU was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421B (serial 421B0014, cancelled January 15, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
3 NTSB records under N55HU: Accident on June 10, 2022 at Big Creek, ID: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 28, 2010 at North Bend, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 31, 1996 at Conchas, NM: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat Aircraft INC A-1B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with fencing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA212 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat Aircraft INC A-1B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to predetermine the depth of the snow on the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA065 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 421B · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent flight into hail which shattered the pilot's windshield and resulted in his incapacitation due to hypoxia.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA366 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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