{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-04-21","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-03-15","city":"RICHMOND","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42139","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320-B2C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-24","maker":"Wilcox Jeffrey Craig","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WILCOX JEFFREY CRAIG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05615CZ","mode_s_code":"53255024","mode_s_hex":"AD5A14","model":"WILCOX BAKENG DUCE","n_number":"N96CW","name":"HARGER AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"INDIAN TRAIL","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-05-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL98FA080","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain altitude while operating in adverse weather. A contributing factor was the incoming fog and high tension static wire.","registration":"N96CW","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on May 25, 1998 at Indian Trail, NC: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N96CW is a Wilcox Jeffrey Craig WILCOX BAKENG DUCE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Harger Aviation LLC, an LLC in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Harger Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 15, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 599 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N96CW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51286, cancelled January 12, 2000). 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 N96CW: Accident on May 25, 1998 at Indian Trail, NC: fatal, destroyed (5 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"599","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"704 MAIN ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00036189","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N96CW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"774693429"}