Porter Timothy VANS RV-4
N15TP is a Porter Timothy VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 10, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Porter Timothy
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 1990
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A0C98D (octal 50144615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 10, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00107969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Richard R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 916 Challenger
Austin, TX 78734-4210
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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 N15TP, 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 Smith Richard R, an individual, certificate issued November 28, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 10, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1990 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15TP 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 N15TP: Accident on May 5, 1993 at Trinity Center, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: T.R. Bristol RV-6 · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILURE TO OBTAIN ENOUGH AIRSPEED FOR TAKEOFF WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL, AND HIS FAILURE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE CROSSWIND CONDITIONS.
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- 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