{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-02-08","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-09-22","city":"GORDON","country_code":"US","county_code":"363","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-22","maker":"Marks Donald P","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MARKS DONALD P","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05623C6","mode_s_code":"52022121","mode_s_hex":"A82451","model":"RV-4","n_number":"N6234L","name":"HENDERSON CATHY H","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHARLESTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1982-07-13","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL82FA184","probable_cause":"","registration":"N6234L","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on July 13, 1982 at Charleston, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HENDERSON JAMES L","plain_english":"N6234L is a Marks Donald P RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gordon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 8, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Henderson Cathy H, a co-owned, certificate issued September 22, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 8, 1996, 3 years after the 1993 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 1949 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6234L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284380, cancelled January 19, 1983); American AA-1 (serial AA1-0434, cancelled October 18, 1972). 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 N6234L: Accident on July 13, 1982 at Charleston, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"1949","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"266 LAKE SHORE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00024322","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6234L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"764534851"}