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N9616A

Christen Industries Inc A-1

Valid Colorado

N9616A 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 Genoa, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 26, 1990. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Christen Industries Inc
Model
A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
Serial number
1170
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1990
Transponder code
AD6308 (octal 53261410)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 7, 1997
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 26, 1990
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00445271

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Boyd Ronald J
Type
Individual
Address
31901 County Road 3U
Genoa, CO 80818-9309

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 2

2026-09-17Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-17Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 2

1978-05-24Dsk Aircraft Corp. SUNFUN VJ-24G · Valid registration
1952-02-06Cessna 140A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9616A, 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 Boyd Ronald J, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 1997, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 26, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9616A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dsk Aircraft Corp. SUNFUN VJ-24G (serial G2400333, cancelled May 24, 1978); Cessna 140A (serial 15337, cancelled February 6, 1952). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 17, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9616A. 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 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