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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Wilcox 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilcox Jeffrey Craig
- Model
- WILCOX BAKENG DUCE
- Serial number
- 599
- 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-320-B2C · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AD5A14 (octal 53255024)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2025
- 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 · April 21, 2005
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00036189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harger Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N96CW links to the rest of the register
- Wilcox Jeffrey Craig 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-B2C 55 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Harger Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Richmond, TX 797 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-B2C 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-B2C 171 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N96CW.json.
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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]
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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