Dean A Hildebrand VANS RV-7
N1447Z is a Dean A Hildebrand VANS RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mesquite, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 10, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dean A Hildebrand
- Model
- VANS RV-7
- Serial number
- 73178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A0B4F1 (octal 50132361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 10, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01080228
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hildebrand Dean A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4406 Silverthorn Dr
Mesquite, TX 75150-2921
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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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1447Z, 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 Hildebrand Dean A, an individual, certificate issued December 8, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 10, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1447Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Helio H-395 (serial 553, cancelled September 27, 1983). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1447Z. 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