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N861SX

Larson William E SONEX

Valid Illinois

N861SX is a Larson William E SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dunlap, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Larson William E
Model
SONEX
Serial number
0861
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2011
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
Transponder code
ABD434 (octal 52752064)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 13, 2011
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 15, 2011
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01070449

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Larson William E
Type
Individual
Address
2021 W Murphy Dr
Dunlap, IL 61525-9406

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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 N861SX, 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 Larson William E, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0861 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N861SX 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 N861SX. 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