Cubcrafters Inc CC11-160
N71BN is a Cubcrafters Inc CC11-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mebane, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated March 25, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cubcrafters Inc
- Model
- CC11-160 · all CC11-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- CC11-00107
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cubcrafter CC340 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A979DA (octal 52274732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · March 25, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01043872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swanson Robert B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5507 Pegasus Dr
Mebane, NC 27302
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N71BN, 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 Swanson Robert B, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated March 25, 2010, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CC11-00107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71BN according to the deregistered file. [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 N71BN: Accident on August 31, 2018 at Lancaster, OH: 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: Cubcrafters CC11-160 · operated under 091
The delayed application of carburetor heat by the pilot which led to accumulation of carburetor ice, eventual loss of engine power, and the subsequent forced landing in high vegetation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data