The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N53BH

Hester Robert E/Debose A E CHRISTEN EAGLE II

Valid Louisiana

N53BH is a Hester Robert E/Debose A E CHRISTEN EAGLE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rayne, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Hester Robert E/Debose A E
Model
CHRISTEN EAGLE II
Serial number
HESTER 0001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6AE35 (octal 51527065)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 13, 2022
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 30, 2000
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00523255

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sievers Brad M
Type
Individual
Address
107 W Betty St
Rayne, LA 70578-4901

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53BH, 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 Sievers Brad M, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HESTER 0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N53BH 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N53BH. 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