Tolle Alan E VENTURE MODEL 20
N353 is a Tolle Alan E VENTURE MODEL 20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 18, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tolle Alan E
- Model
- VENTURE MODEL 20
- Serial number
- AT-7
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- QUESTAIR VENTURE MODEL 20
- Transponder code
- A3EFF1 (octal 50767761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 18, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00686022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Giddings Thomas C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6881 Circle Dr
Fort Myers, FL 33905-7627
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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 2
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The public federal record on N353, 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 Giddings Thomas C, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 18, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AT-7 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N353 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Culbertson THORP T-18 (serial 198, cancelled February 20, 1997); Mohawk Aircraft Corporation PINTO MLV (serial 119, cancelled March 1, 1946). 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]
2 NTSB records under N353: Accident on October 12, 2000 at Madera, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 7, 1996 at Albuquerque, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tolle VENTURE MODEL 20 · operated under 091
The mechanical failure of a fuel sump tank check valve, during takeoff initial climb, that resulted in fuel starvation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA012 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Culbertson THORP T-18 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane while maneuvering. Factors were the high winds and the high density altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96FA337 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