Esselstyn Chuck RV-6
N6YC is an Esselstyn Chuck RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Esselstyn Chuck
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 22998
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A7C4B6 (octal 51742266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 29, 1998
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00324992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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 N6YC, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2009, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22998 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6YC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH 339, cancelled March 27, 1984). 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 N6YC: Accident on September 23, 2011 at Lyons, WI: 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: Esselstyn Chuck RV-6 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to obtain a proper touchdown point while landing, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA665 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