Braunschmidt Robert J RV6-A
N160BM is a Braunschmidt Robert J RV6-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakwood, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Braunschmidt Robert J
- Model
- RV6-A
- Serial number
- 20832
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
- Transponder code
- A0F1D3 (octal 50170723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00865920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dobbelaere Michael P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19603 Rd 108
Oakwood, OH 45873
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.
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The public federal record on N160BM, 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 Dobbelaere Michael P, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2004, expires March 31, 2030. 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 20832 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160BM 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 N160BM: Accident on June 9, 2003 at Tea, SD: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Braunschmidt RV-6A · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons and the unsuitable terrain for landing encountered. Contributing factors to this accident were the crop and the collapse of the nose landing gear strut.
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
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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