Nanchang China CJ-6
N581DS is a Nanchang China CJ-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Scs Aircraft Management LLC, an LLC in Culver City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 30, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nanchang China
- Model
- CJ-6 · all CJ-6s and related versions
- Serial number
- 832004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A779FB (octal 51674773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 30, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00445651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scs Aircraft Management LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11949 Jefferson Blvd Ste 104
Culver City, CA 90230-6336
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N581DS, 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 Scs Aircraft Management LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 17, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 30, 2017, 49 years after the 1968 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 832004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N581DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 3164, cancelled December 31, 2009). 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]
1 NTSB record under N581DS: Accident on July 31, 2009 at Ravenswood, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cirrus SR-22 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper modification of the certified, on-board oxygen system, which resulted in incapacitation due to hypoxia, and the airplane's subsequent uncontrolled descent into terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09FA429 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