Christen 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AD5FB7 (octal 53257667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00105151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffith Kruz S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 312 Joelyle St
Bakersfield, CA 93314-3872
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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 failure to maintain an adequate clearance from obstacles while intentionally flying at a low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06LA147 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
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