Smith Glenn W VENTURE
N53TL is a Smith Glenn W VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Glenn W
- Model
- VENTURE
- Serial number
- 88
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-G · 280 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6AFC8 (octal 51527710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00885692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Losey Thomas L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6901 North Dr
Fort Myers, FL 33905-7649
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N53TL, 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 Losey Thomas L, an individual, certificate issued July 9, 2007, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 88 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53TL 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]
1 NTSB record under N53TL: Accident on July 20, 2025 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Questair VENTURE · operated under 091
On July 20, 2025, about 1545 central daylight time, a Questair Venture airplane, N53TL, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. According to the pilot, he extended his landing gear over Fisk during the approach to the airport. The pilot confirmed that he had three green lights illuminated on his instrument panel and he continued the approach. During the landing flare to runway 9, the airplane touched down on b…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data