{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-06-17","airworthiness_ops":"Operating light-sport kit-built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-18","city":"MORRISON","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-18","maker":"Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RAINBOW SKYREACH (PTY) LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06001BS","mode_s_code":"50423124","mode_s_hex":"A22654","model":"BUSHCAT","n_number":"N238BC","name":"BLACK KENNETH D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ST. MARTINVILLE","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-04-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW98FA185","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft as a result of VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions and flight into known adverse weather conditions.  Contributing factors were turbulence, clouds, dark night and lack of an instrument rating.","registration":"N238BC","state":"LA","summary":"Accident on April 17, 1998 at St. Martinville, LA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N238BC is a Rainbow Skyreach (Pty) Ltd BUSHCAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morrison, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 17, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Black Kenneth D, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 17, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH285C for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N238BC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: DJI MINI 3 PRO (serial 1581F4XFA238ML82751, cancelled January 4, 2024); Young Robert N GLASAIR III (serial 3099, cancelled April 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N238BC: Accident on April 17, 1998 at St. Martinville, LA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"CH285C","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6351 CRESTBROOK DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01476140","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N238BC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"804652227"}