Purdy Vernon J RANS S-6S COYOTE II
N2161D is a Purdy Vernon J RANS S-6S COYOTE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbus, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Purdy Vernon J
- Model
- RANS S-6S COYOTE II
- Serial number
- 09991342
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- RANS INC RANS S-6S COYOTE II
- Transponder code
- A1D24B (octal 50351113)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 31, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00225610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edmison Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11998 355Th Ave
Columbus, NE 68601-6505
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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
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The public federal record on N2161D, 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 Edmison Robert J, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2006, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 09991342 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2161D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D35 (serial D3508, cancelled January 21, 1997). 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 N2161D: Accident on July 23, 1996 at Yellow Pine, ID: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech D35 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, while maneuvering in mountainous terrain, which resulted in a stall/spin and collision with terrain.
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 August 27, 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