Portman Joseph Louis Iii PORTMAN RV-7A
N131RV is a Portman Joseph Louis Iii PORTMAN RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elmendorf, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Portman Joseph Louis Iii
- Model
- PORTMAN RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70327
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A08073 (octal 50100163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00009959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Portman Joseph Louis III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5595 Labus Rd Lot 2
Elmendorf, TX 78112-9634
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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 N131RV, 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 Portman Joseph Louis III, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N131RV 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 N131RV: Accident on December 21, 2007 at Elmendorf, TX: minor 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: Portman RV-7A · operated under 091
The failure of the nose landing gear. A contributing factor was the mound/uneven runway surface.
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