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A Van's Aircraft RV-9, the same model family as N129RV
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N129RV

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-9A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N129RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2000 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training; market survey, dated January 16, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-9A · all RV-9As and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-9 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D1A · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
Transponder code
A076AC (octal 50073254)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 29, 2000
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 56 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 16, 2025
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00763603

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vans Aircraft INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
14401 Keil Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9467

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N129RV links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N129RV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2000, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2025, 25 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N129RV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N129RV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data