Harvey 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Harvey Patten
- Model
- RANS S-6ES
- Serial number
- 08061764
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6ES
- Transponder code
- AAF741 (octal 52573501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00381559
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards Kenneth D
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA112 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
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