{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-10-17","city":"EMERYVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-17","maker":"Centauri Aircraft Company Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CENTAURI AIRCRAFT COMPANY INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643G8","mode_s_code":"50443174","mode_s_hex":"A2467C","model":"VALKYRIE","n_number":"N246CA","name":"CENTAURI AIRCRAFT COMPANY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Poplar Bluff","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-02-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA17CA150","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s descent below the minimum descent altitude during a nonprecision approach, which resulted in a tree strike.","registration":"N246CA","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on February 6, 2017 at Poplar Bluff, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N246CA is a Centauri Aircraft Company Inc VALKYRIE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Centauri Aircraft Company INC, a corporation in Emeryville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Centauri Aircraft Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 07 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N246CA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech F90 (serial LA-27, cancelled March 2, 2019); Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.223, cancelled March 30, 2001). 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 N246CA: Accident on February 6, 2017 at Poplar Bluff, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"07","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1900 POWELL ST STE 700","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01522509","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N246CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"946081889"}