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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Harvey Patten RANS S-6ES
N8053R is a Harvey Patten RANS S-6ES, 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 Fruita, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 10, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Harvey Patten
- Model
- RANS S-6ES
- Serial number
- 08061764
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6ES
- Transponder code
- AAF741 (octal 52573501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00381559
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards Kenneth D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 847 River Ranch Ct
Fruita, CO 81521-8436
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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 2
Connections how N8053R links to the rest of the register
- Harvey Patten 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300A 161 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Fruita, CO 30 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8053R.json.
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The public federal record on N8053R, 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 Richards Kenneth D, an individual, certificate issued May 25, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 10, 2018, 11 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 08061764 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8053R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288216093, cancelled May 18, 1988); Beech A24R (serial MC-48, cancelled December 11, 1974). 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 N8053R: Accident on January 28, 2011 at Buckeye, AZ: 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: Harvey Patten RANS S-6ES · operated under 091
A disconnection of the elevator control linkage due to incorrect installation or maintenance, which was due to the retaining nut backing off the bolt and allowing the bolt to fall out.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data