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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N96CJ

Christopher W Jones/Cecil W Jo RV-6A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N96CJ is a Christopher W Jones/Cecil W Jo RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jones Christopher W, a partnership in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 25, 2011.

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Aircraft

Maker
Christopher W Jones/Cecil W Jo
Model
RV-6A
Serial number
21577
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 · 210 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2011
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
Transponder code
AD5A08 (octal 53255010)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 18, 2011
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 25, 2011
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01082073

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jones Christopher W
Type
PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 42371
Portland, OR 97242-0371
Co-owners
Jones Cecil W

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N96CJ links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Christopher W Jones/Cecil W Jo 1 aircraft on the register
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N96CJ, 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 Jones Christopher W, a partnership, certificate issued November 18, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 25, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21577 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N96CJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N96CJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data