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N6430C

Stinson L-5

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N6430C is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chuckey, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated April 2, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Stinson
Model
L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
Serial number
1813
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A872BB (octal 52071273)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
February 9, 2005
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 2, 1982
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00652246

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mckenzie William R
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
518 Skyway Dr
Chuckey, TN 37641-5601

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6430C, 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 Mckenzie William R, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1813 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6430C 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6430C: Accident on April 18, 1983 at Haines, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA83LA082Accident on April 18, 1983 at Haines, OR: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 4298562

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson L-5 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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