Ryan Christopher C VANS RV-4
N100DF is a Ryan Christopher C VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan Christopher C
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 4490
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2A · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A00505 (octal 50002405)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 19, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01008858
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fisher Charlton Dru
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12436 Fm 1960 Rd W Pmb 127
Houston, TX 77065-4809
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N100DF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Fisher Charlton Dru, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N100DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172L (serial 17259479, cancelled May 1, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N100DF: Accident on February 20, 1994 at East Newport, ME: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
IMPROPER ENGINE MAINTENANCE BY THE OPERATOR RESULTING IN OIL EXHAUSTION AND SUBSEQUENT INTERNAL ENGINE DAMAGE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94LA044 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data