Swanson R/Swanson S RV-6
N30AK is a Swanson R/Swanson S RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Berkeley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Swanson R/Swanson S
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 21153
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A31D03 (octal 50616403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 3, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00446081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Romanski Jack
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1321 Grizzly Peak Blvd
Berkeley, CA 94708-2129
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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 N30AK, 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 Romanski Jack, an individual, certificate issued March 24, 2005, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Balloon Fabrik K-630/1-R (serial 8865, cancelled date not given). 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 N30AK: Accident on January 30, 2024 at Concord, CA: fatal, substantial damage (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: Swanson R/Swanson S RV-6 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during takeoff due to a separated fuel line and the pilot’s subsequent failure to maintain control of the airplane. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's medical condition and the effects of multiple impairing substances.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA080 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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