Flight Design Gmbh CTSW
N646MA is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ken Graham Phd INC, a corporation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated January 12, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTSW · all CTSWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 05-11-07
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A87C99 (octal 52076231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · January 12, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00223949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ken Graham Phd INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 832 Highline Place Ste 104
Sioux Falls, SD 57110
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 N646MA, 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 Ken Graham Phd INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 9, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated January 12, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 05-11-07 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N646MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-3255, cancelled October 2, 1980). 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 N646MA: Accident on July 5, 2025 at Joliet, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Flight Design GMBH CTSW · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the crosswind landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA238 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