Christen Industries Inc A-1
N9598Z is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Del Valle Enterprises INC, a corporation in Sandpoint, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1102
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AD599E (octal 53254636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00354711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Del Valle Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1444
Sandpoint, ID 83864-0865
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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 N9598Z, 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 Del Valle Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 1998, 9 years after the 1989 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9598Z 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 N9598Z: Accident on January 10, 2017 at Milton-Freewater, OR: 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: Christen Industries INC A 1 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to take off from unsuitable terrain with a tailwind, which resulted in a nose-over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA110 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
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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