Vans Aircraft Inc RV-7
N137RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2001 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training; market survey, dated January 26, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-7 · all RV-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A096BD (octal 50113275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2001
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Crew training; Market survey · January 26, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00793644
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vans Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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The public federal record on N137RV, 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 Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 29, 2001, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2024, 23 years after the 2001 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N137RV 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 N137RV: Accident on April 10, 2021 at Boulder, CO: 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: Vans Aircraft INC RV-7 · operated under 091
a bird strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA21LA120 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