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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N523FS

Alan J Riddick SONEX

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N523FS is an Alan J Riddick SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenfield, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2015.

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Aircraft

Maker
Alan J Riddick
Model
SONEX
Serial number
188
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 · Jabiru 2200A · 85 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A694A1 (octal 51512241)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 15, 2016
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
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 · July 10, 2015
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01179642

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Riddick Richard A
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
427 Cochran Rd
Greenfield, TN 38230-3800

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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

2014-08-01Riddick Richard A 1200Z · First notice for registration renewal

Connections how N523FS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Greenfield, TN 1 aircraft registered in this town
  • Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N523FS, 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 Riddick Richard A, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N523FS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Riddick Richard A 1200Z (serial 501, cancelled August 1, 2014). 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 N523FS. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data