Wilson Forrest RUTAN DEFIANT
N16FW is a Wilson Forrest RUTAN DEFIANT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harvard, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilson Forrest
- Model
- RUTAN DEFIANT
- Serial number
- 28
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0EFE7 (octal 50167747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 25, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00265992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swain Kenneth C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8816 Ferris Rd
Harvard, IL 60033-9333
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16FW, 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 Swain Kenneth C, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16FW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Williams Fredric A HUMMEL BIRD (serial 756P, cancelled June 15, 1995). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16FW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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