Reed-Madsen Donald TAYLOR BIRD
N12121 is a Reed-Madsen Donald TAYLOR BIRD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Udall, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 10, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Reed-Madsen Donald
- Model
- TAYLOR BIRD
- Serial number
- 09
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A05A21 (octal 50055041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 10, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00745841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Main Patrick R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8437 Skylane Dr
Udall, KS 67146-7400
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N12121, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Main Patrick R, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 09 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12121 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21064360, cancelled January 18, 1991); Stinson U (serial 9009, cancelled September 3, 1938). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N12121: Accident on October 5, 1997 at Humboldt, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Reed-Madsen TAYLOR BIRD · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot-in-command to attain airspeed and maintain control of the aircraft, resulting in a stall/mush.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data