Cathaway Russ G RV-6A
N102RC is a Cathaway Russ G RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lyle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cathaway Russ G
- Model
- RV-6A
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A00D9C (octal 50006634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 29, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00715552
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnston Steve M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30 Mcconiga Rd
Lyle, WA 98635-9306
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N102RC, 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 Johnston Steve M, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N102RC according to the deregistered file. [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 N102RC: Accident on November 7, 2003 at Saticoy, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cathaway RV-6A · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of a loose B-nut fitting for the carburetor fuel inlet line, which allowed fuel to leak out.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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