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N46983

Smale Christopher L RUTAN DEFIANT

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