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N553RL

Laird Robert KOLB MKIIIC

Valid Kansas

N553RL is a Laird Robert KOLB MKIIIC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated July 5, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Laird Robert
Model
KOLB MKIIIC
Serial number
05EW0553
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A70C12 (octal 51606022)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 28, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · July 5, 2007
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00357749

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Summers Scott B
Type
Individual
Address
918 N Custer St
Wichita, KS 67203-4752

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N553RL, 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 Summers Scott B, an individual, certificate issued May 28, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated July 5, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 05EW0553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N553RL 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 N553RL. 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