{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2013-09-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-24","city":"CAMERON PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41595","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320-D2J","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-24","maker":"Tinckler G/Tinckler A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TINCKLER G/TINCKLER A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056171A","mode_s_code":"50547056","mode_s_hex":"A2CE2E","model":"VANS RV6A","n_number":"N280CA","name":"BLUE SKIES FLIGHT CLUB LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SIMI VALLEY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-07-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA303","probable_cause":"THE COMPANY'S MAINTENACE PERSONNEL IMPROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE AIRCRAFT'S IDLE RPM AND THE FAILURE OF THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR RPM AFTER THE ENGINE FAILED.  THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN TYPE OF OPERATION IS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.","registration":"N280CA","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 18, 1992 at Simi Valley, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N280CA is a Tinckler G/Tinckler A VANS RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Blue Skies Flight Club LLC, an LLC in Cameron Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Blue Skies Flight Club LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 7, 2013, 11 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24826 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N280CA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N280CA: Accident on July 18, 1992 at Simi Valley, CA: 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"24826","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O DOUGLAS BOLSOVER","street2":"3229 BARON CT","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00125689","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N280CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"956829208"}