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N16FW

Wilson Forrest RUTAN DEFIANT

Valid Illinois

N16FW is a Wilson Forrest RUTAN DEFIANT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harvard, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Wilson Forrest
Model
RUTAN DEFIANT
Serial number
28
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0EFE7 (octal 50167747)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2018
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 25, 2000
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00265992

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Swain Kenneth C
Type
Individual
Address
8816 Ferris Rd
Harvard, IL 60033-9333

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1995-06-15Williams Fredric A HUMMEL BIRD · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data