Wilcox Jeffrey Craig WILCOX BAKENG DUCE
N96CW is a Wilcox Jeffrey Craig WILCOX BAKENG DUCE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Harger Aviation LLC, an LLC in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilcox Jeffrey Craig
- Model
- WILCOX BAKENG DUCE
- Serial number
- 599
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2C · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AD5A14 (octal 53255024)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00036189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harger Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 704 Main St
Richmond, TX 77469-3429
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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 1
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The public federal record on N96CW, 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 Harger Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 15, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 599 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96CW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51286, cancelled January 12, 2000). 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 N96CW: Accident on May 25, 1998 at Indian Trail, NC: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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: Bell 206L-3 · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain altitude while operating in adverse weather. A contributing factor was the incoming fog and high tension static wire.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data