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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Schramm Larry A-20 VISTA-VARLET
N50511 is a Schramm Larry A-20 VISTA-VARLET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pleasanton, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2026 and expires on November 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schramm Larry
- Model
- A-20 VISTA-VARLET
- Serial number
- SA-20V-0036
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- SPECTRUM AIRCRAFT CORP A-20 VISTA-VARLET
- Transponder code
- A64F18 (octal 51447430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2026
- Expires
- November 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 19, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00037389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thirumalairajan Raghuraman
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2823 El Capitan Dr
Pleasanton, CA 94566-8718
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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
Connections how N50511 links to the rest of the register
- Schramm Larry 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Pleasanton, CA 74 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- Where N50511 is now · Last seen today at 12:18 pm.
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The public federal record on N50511, 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 Thirumalairajan Raghuraman, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2026, expires November 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SA-20V-0036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50511 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069357, cancelled May 5, 2000). 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 N50511: Accident on March 31, 1985 at Logan, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data