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N53AN

Neill Lester A 003

Valid Illinois

N53AN is a Neill Lester A 003, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Antioch, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 24, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Neill Lester A
Model
003
Serial number
1970
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A6AE21 (octal 51527041)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 20, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 24, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00435709

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Weidner Brian T
Type
Co-owned
Address
28150 W Il Route 173
Antioch, IL 60002-9102
Co-owners
Weidner Samuel A / Weidner Isaac M

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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

1988-06-03Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53AN, 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 Weidner Brian T, a co-owned, certificate issued September 20, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 24, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53AN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER (serial 135, cancelled June 3, 1988). 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 N53AN. 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