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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Christen Industries Inc A-1
N96088 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 an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Christen Industries Inc A-1 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
- 1151
- 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 · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AD5FB7 (octal 53257667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 17, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00105151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffith Kruz S
- 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
- 312 Joelyle St
Bakersfield, CA 93314-3872
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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 2
Connections how N96088 links to the rest of the register
- Christen Industries Inc A-1 81 registered
- Christen Industries Inc 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Bakersfield, CA 372 aircraft registered in this town
- Meadows Field · BFL
- Bakersfield Municipal · L45
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N96088, 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 Griffith Kruz S, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96088 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 8388, cancelled June 4, 1963); S.O.C.A.T.A. MS893E (serial 12451, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N96088: Accident on April 23, 2006 at Creston, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 failure to maintain an adequate clearance from obstacles while intentionally flying at a low altitude.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data