{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1998-07-01","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-14","city":"MOUNTAIN HOME","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-14","maker":"Fiebich Paul Dean","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIEBICH PAUL DEAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05605UE","mode_s_code":"52000275","mode_s_hex":"A800BD","model":"AIRBIKE RX40","n_number":"N61453","name":"HOLMES STEVE A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Derby","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-03-31","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN15CA201","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N61453","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on March 31, 2015 at Derby, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Holmes Steve A, an individual, certificate issued December 14, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N61453: Accident on March 31, 2015 at Derby, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"0001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1132 OZARK AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00396991","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N61453","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"726532600"}