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N9134N

Bender Ray E CHRISTAVIA MK-1

Valid Iowa

N9134N is a Bender Ray E CHRISTAVIA MK-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kalona, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Bender Ray E
Model
CHRISTAVIA MK-1
Serial number
RB01CH697
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
ACA4C1 (octal 53122301)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 21, 2006
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 17, 2008
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00224009

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bender Ray E
Type
Individual
Address
1160 Larch Ave
Kalona, IA 52247-9101

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 4

2002-10-09Norris Edward S A GENESIS · exported to Argentina · Valid registration
1996-10-17Vincelette Robert Barnes Jr YV49 · Valid registration
1991-07-10Mooney M20J · exported to Korea Rep Of (S) · Valid registration
1988-04-19Piper PA-28-181 · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9134N, 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 Bender Ray E, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RB01CH697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9134N was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Norris Edward S A GENESIS (serial 074, cancelled October 9, 2002); Vincelette Robert Barnes Jr YV49 (serial 1, cancelled October 17, 1996); Mooney M20J (serial 243222, cancelled July 10, 1991). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9134N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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