Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A
N153C is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1A · all A-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1415
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A0D586 (octal 50152606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 5, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00777231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harless Richard K
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 575 E 5Th St
Battle Mountain, NV 89820-2145 - Co-owners
- Harless Carla E
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N153C, 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 Harless Richard K, a co-owned, certificate issued April 14, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 5, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1415 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech K35 (serial D5966, cancelled April 17, 1996); Stinson 108-2 (serial 108-3153, cancelled October 17, 1955). 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]
2 NTSB records under N153C: Accident on May 15, 2006 at Englewood, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 8, 1994 at Grand Rapids, MI: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat A-1A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control while taxiing from landing, resulting in a collision with a refuse dumpster. A contributing factor was his physical impairment by alcohol.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech K35 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper fuel tank selection resulting in fuel starvation.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data