Fiebich Paul Dean AIRBIKE RX40
N61453 is a Fiebich Paul Dean AIRBIKE RX40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mountain Home, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fiebich Paul Dean
- Model
- AIRBIKE RX40
- Serial number
- 0001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A800BD (octal 52000275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00396991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holmes Steve A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1132 Ozark Ave
Mountain Home, AR 72653-2600
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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
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The public federal record on N61453, 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 Holmes Steve A, an individual, certificate issued December 14, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61453 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-1538, cancelled February 15, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N61453: Accident on March 31, 2015 at Derby, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fiebich Paul Dean AIRBIKE RX40 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions during the landing, which resulted in a hard landing and separation of the left main landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15CA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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