Rausch Leon L RUTAN VARIEZE
N40LR is a Rausch Leon L RUTAN VARIEZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience, a corporation in Waller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rausch Leon L
- Model
- RUTAN VARIEZE
- Serial number
- 2131
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4AB52 (octal 51125522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 22, 1986
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00770924
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 33222 Rochen Rd
Waller, TX 77484-7563
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N40LR, 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 Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience, a corporation, certificate issued May 12, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40LR 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 N40LR. 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