Brocato Adolph N RV-4
N121A is a Brocato Adolph N RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aynor, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brocato Adolph N
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 2045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A05769 (octal 50053551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 24, 1992
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00163772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whidby Richard L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1320 J P Rabon Rd
Aynor, SC 29511-2679
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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 2
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The public federal record on N121A, 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 Whidby Richard L, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N121A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lockheed 749-79 (serial 2618, cancelled November 23, 1970); Maule M-6-235 (serial 7459C, cancelled date not given). 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 N121A: Accident on June 18, 1985 at Gibbonsville, ID: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M-6-235 · operated under 135
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