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N521XD

Dacey Michael C VENTURE

N521XD is a Dacey Michael C VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pismo Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2004 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 12, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Dacey Michael C
Model
VENTURE
Serial number
226
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550 SER · 280 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
NUVENTURE AIRCRAFT VENTURE
Transponder code
A68EB6 (octal 51507266)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 4, 2004
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 12, 2006
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00111079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dacey Michael C
Type
Individual
Address
128 Capanna Ct
Pismo Beach, CA 93449-2820

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N521XD, 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 Dacey Michael C, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2004, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 12, 2006, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N521XD according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N521XD: Accident on September 15, 2011 at Reno, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR11FA453Accident on September 15, 2011 at Reno, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dacey VENTURE · operated under 091

A total loss of engine power during the initial climb due to the pilot’s premature activation of the engine's anti-detonant injection system.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11FA453 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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