Christen Industries Inc A-1
N96042 is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aeropaint LLC, an LLC in Wylie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 22, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AD5F25 (octal 53257445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 22, 1990
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00975091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeropaint LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 101 Regency Dr
Wylie, TX 75098-7017
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N96042, 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 Aeropaint LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 20, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 22, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96042 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 8342, cancelled October 13, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N96042. 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 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
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