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N853DW

Stits Playboy SA3A

Valid Texas

N853DW is a Stits Playboy SA3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Amarillo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Stits Playboy
Model
SA3A
Serial number
P-853-DW
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
ABB2DD (octal 52731335)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 24, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 29, 1979
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00132751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Evans Douglas A
Type
Co-owned
Address
13301 S Fm 1258
Amarillo, TX 79118-4619
Co-owners
Burgin Lee / Rhoton Joel S / Thomason Kaleb J

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.

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