Gebbie Foster Thomas Iv RV-6
N138ET is a Gebbie Foster Thomas Iv RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westerville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 1997 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gebbie Foster Thomas Iv
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- RV697
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0995F (octal 50114537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 1997
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 1, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00216511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gebbie Foster Thomas IV
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6594 Collingwood Dr
Westerville, OH 43082-9538
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N138ET, 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 Gebbie Foster Thomas IV, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 1997, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RV697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N138ET 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N138ET. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data