Frank E Dressel RV 14A
N53FD is a Frank E Dressel RV 14A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Smithton, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Frank E Dressel
- Model
- RV 14A
- Serial number
- 140816
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14A
- Transponder code
- A6AE95 (octal 51527225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01404298
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dressel Frank E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4932 Wilderness Pt
Smithton, IL 62285-3664
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.
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The public federal record on N53FD, 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.
Valid registration to Dressel Frank E, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140816 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53FD according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53FD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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