Don E Christiansen RANS S-21
N420DC is a Don E Christiansen RANS S-21, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Don E Christiansen
- Model
- RANS S-21
- Serial number
- 71
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IOX340 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-21 OUTBOUND
- Transponder code
- A4FBED (octal 51175755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01319222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Don E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9902 Air Park Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4474
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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 N420DC, 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 Christiansen Don E, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N420DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Corley Hubert KR-2 (serial 401, cancelled June 13, 2013). 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 N420DC: Accident on May 14, 1991 at Venice, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Corley Hubert KR-2 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF FLIGHT CONTROLS.
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- 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