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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N56FF

Marvin L James BABY ACE

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N56FF is a Marvin L James BABY ACE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Scio, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2019.

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Aircraft

Maker
Marvin L James
Model
BABY ACE
Serial number
MJFF001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A-75 · 75 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A72514 (octal 51622424)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 13, 2018
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2019
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01281076

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
James Marvin L
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
42676 Rodgers Mountain Loop
Scio, OR 97374-9385

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2007-04-24Beech 400A · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Connections how N56FF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Scio, OR 18 aircraft registered in this town
  • Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N56FF, 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 James Marvin L, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MJFF001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N56FF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 400A (serial RK-56, cancelled April 24, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N56FF. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data