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N998K

Charles Center XW-16

Valid Alaska

N998K is a Charles Center XW-16, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Charles Center
Model
XW-16
Serial number
101-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2026
Transponder code
ADF13C (octal 53370474)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 21, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 21, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 25, 2026
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01517814

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Center Charles C
Type
Individual
Address
4524 N Anchor Cir
Wasilla, AK 99623-1052

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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

1943-12-17Curtiss Wright ROBIN C-1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N998K, 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 Center Charles C, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N998K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright ROBIN C-1 (serial 637, cancelled December 17, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N998K. 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 September 30, 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