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N43520

Mitchell Harvey D RANS S-6ES

Valid Texas

N43520 is a Mitchell Harvey D RANS S-6ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Mitchell Harvey D
Model
RANS S-6ES
Serial number
02051636
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
RANS INC S-6ES
Transponder code
A53868 (octal 51234150)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 28, 2021
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 28, 2006
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00171589

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gragard Merle C III
Type
Individual
Address
189 County Road 3156
Jacksonville, TX 75766-8075

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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 3

1992-04-14Piper PA-28-161 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1974-10-22Piper PA-28-180 · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1966-07-25Taylorcraft BC12-D · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N43520, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gragard Merle C III, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 28, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02051636 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N43520 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288416076, cancelled April 14, 1992); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7405196, cancelled October 22, 1974); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 7179, cancelled July 25, 1966). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N43520. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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