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N453

Wille Chad C BLERIOT XI

Valid Iowa

N453 is a Wille Chad C BLERIOT XI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Corning, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Wille Chad C
Model
BLERIOT XI
Serial number
21
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Anzani W-3 · 25 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A57D40 (octal 51276500)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 8, 2011
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 8, 2011
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01068336

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wille Chad C
Type
Individual
Address
1139 State Highway 148
Corning, IA 50841-7507

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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

1939-03-15Star CAVALIER · Valid registration
—Bell H-13H · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N453, 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 Wille Chad C, an individual, certificate issued April 8, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N453 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Star CAVALIER (serial 103, cancelled March 15, 1939); Bell H-13H (serial BHC-2048 (DAF-57-1810), cancelled date not given). 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 N453. 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