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N8181C

Nanchang China CJ-6A

Valid Arizona

N8181C is a Nanchang China CJ-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Chi-Com Aviation LLC, an LLC in San Tan Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 13, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Nanchang China
Model
CJ-6A · all CJ-6As and related versions
Serial number
2432061
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1969
Transponder code
AB2992 (octal 52624622)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 12, 2014
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 27, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · May 13, 2016
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00315448

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chi-Com Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
436 W Paoli St
San Tan Valley, AZ 85143-1210

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

1965-05-21Piper PA-18-135 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N8181C, 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 Chi-Com Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 12, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 2016, 47 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2432061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8181C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-135 (serial 18-3638, cancelled May 21, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8181C: Accident on November 23, 2006 at Queen Creek, AZ: 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

LAX07LA045Accident on November 23, 2006 at Queen Creek, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Nanchang CJ-6A · operated under 091

The total loss of engine power resulting from the failure of the engine's air compressor due to a seized piston, which resulted in the stoppage of the oil pump, fuel pump, and tachometer generator, in addition to the compressor. The underlying reason for the piston seizure and air compressor failure is undetermined.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX07LA045 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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