N46983
Smale Christopher L RUTAN DEFIANT
Valid
California
N46983 is a Smale Christopher L RUTAN DEFIANT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 1993 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 20, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smale Christopher L
- Model
- RUTAN DEFIANT
- Serial number
- 54
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A5BE96 (octal 51337226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 1993
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 20, 1995
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00754572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smale Christopher Cotrustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1004 Acacia Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93305 - Co-owners
- Visconti-Smale Christina Coturst
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
1951-11-06Fairchild M-62A · Valid registration
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data