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N52XL

Thomas Scott Shuler RV-14A

Valid Colorado

N52XL is a Thomas Scott Shuler RV-14A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 27, 2025. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Thomas Scott Shuler
Model
RV-14A
Serial number
140788
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2025
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14A
Transponder code
A688AD (octal 51504255)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 20, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 27, 2025
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01397216

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shuler Thomas Scott
Type
Individual
Address
1105 W Oak St
Fort Collins, CO 80521-2452

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Documents on file 1

2026-08-31Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

2010-12-02Deeb George A/Zenith ZODIAC CH 601 XL · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N52XL, 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 Shuler Thomas Scott, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 27, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140788 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52XL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Deeb George A/Zenith ZODIAC CH 601 XL (serial 65053, cancelled December 2, 2010). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N52XL. 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