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N72RD

Dixon CRIS-TENA

Valid Maryland

N72RD is a Dixon CRIS-TENA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bowie, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 1988 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Dixon
Model
CRIS-TENA
Serial number
MC107
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
85 mph
Transponder code
A9A2AE (octal 52321256)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 1988
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00973081

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dixon Ronald H
Type
Individual
Address
12618 Millstream Dr
Bowie, MD 20715-1618

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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

—Beech 65-A90 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N72RD, 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 Dixon Ronald H, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 1988, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 1977, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MC107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N72RD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-A90 (serial LJ127, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N72RD. 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