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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Rutan VARIVIGGEN 50-160
N299AR is a Rutan VARIVIGGEN 50-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1987. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Stedman, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey; amateur built, dated June 19, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rutan
- Model
- VARIVIGGEN 50-160
- Serial number
- 299
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1987
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A316F9 (octal 50613371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Market survey; Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 62 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 1987
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00020903
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Autry Timothy R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1745 Wade Stedman Rd
Stedman, NC 28391-8705
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N299AR links to the rest of the register
- Rutan 4 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Stedman, NC 6 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,123 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N299AR.json.
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The public federal record on N299AR, 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 Autry Timothy R, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for market survey; amateur built, dated June 19, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 299 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N299AR 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 N299AR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data