Dooley Rhett A TUKAN
N179RD is a Dooley Rhett A TUKAN, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brush, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated December 2, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dooley Rhett A
- Model
- TUKAN
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A13C17 (octal 50236027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · December 2, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00399169
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dooley Rhett A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2613 Ruhl Rd
Brush, CO 80723-1304
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N179RD, 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 Dooley Rhett A, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2007, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 2, 2013, 9 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N179RD according to the deregistered file. [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 N179RD. 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