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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Chris Wallen JA35 STRETCH
N720KY is a Chris Wallen JA35 STRETCH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rutherford, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 3:07 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Chris Wallen
- Model
- JA35 STRETCH · all JA35 STRETCHs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Chris Wallen JA35 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- JA747-11-24
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont IOX370 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2026
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC JA35 SUPERSTOL XL ST
- Transponder code
- A9A484 (octal 52322204)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 3, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01521299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hardin Matthew W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 50
Rutherford, CA 94573-0050
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N720KY links to the rest of the register
- Chris Wallen JA35 8 registered
- Chris Wallen 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IOX370 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Rutherford, CA 5 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- Where N720KY is now · Last seen Monday at 3:07 pm.
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The public federal record on N720KY, 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 Hardin Matthew W, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA747-11-24 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N720KY 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N720KY. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data