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N636CA

Centrair 101A

Valid Illinois

N636CA is a Centrair 101A, a glider with no engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Naperville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 11, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Centrair
Model
101A · all 101As and related versions
Serial number
101A0120
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1984
Transponder code
A85439 (octal 52052071)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 2, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · May 11, 1984
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00742046

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Murray James E
Type
Individual
Address
1320 Mc Dowell Rd
Naperville, IL 60563-1176

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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 N636CA, 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 Murray James E, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated May 11, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101A0120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N636CA 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 N636CA. 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