Pitts Vernon D RV-4
N15VP is a Pitts Vernon D RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clayton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts Vernon D
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 1793
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0C9BF (octal 50144677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00183776
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hardwick Alan R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 40 Bonaventure Dr
Clayton, NC 27527-9320
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N15VP, 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 Hardwick Alan R, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1793 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15VP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-C33 (serial CD1024, cancelled April 20, 1992). 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]
2 NTSB records under N15VP: Accident on November 26, 2001 at Burgaw, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 16, 1984 at Toms River, NJ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vernon D. Pitts RV-4 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 35-C33 · operated under 091
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
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