Rainbow Aircraft Pty Ltd COBRA
N20860 is a Rainbow Aircraft Pty Ltd COBRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Twin Falls, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for weight-shift control, dated November 23, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rainbow Aircraft Pty Ltd
- Model
- COBRA
- Serial number
- C-051
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A1B2FE (octal 50331376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Weight-shift control · November 23, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00027959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Giesler Richard B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2191 Pole Line Rd E
Twin Falls, ID 83301-8332
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N20860, 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 Giesler Richard B, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 23, 2009, 7 years after the 2002 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 C-051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20860 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18261265, cancelled June 14, 1974). 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 N20860. 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 August 27, 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