{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-03-01","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-05-12","city":"MISSION VIEJO","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"TURBINE CUBS OF WYOMING","kit_model":"PA-18","last_action_date":"2023-08-04","maker":"Chapton Don","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CHAPTON DON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05630D0","mode_s_code":"52075677","mode_s_hex":"A87BBF","model":"L-21","n_number":"N646CH","name":"HUGHES DAVID L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"HUGHES LINDA V","plain_english":"N646CH is a Chapton Don L-21, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Mission Viejo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 1, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hughes David L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 12, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 1, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 802045 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N646CH 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N646CH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"802045","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"25502 PINATA CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01060969","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N646CH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"926915450"}