Vangrunsven RV-3
N17RV is a Vangrunsven RV-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 6, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vangrunsven
- Model
- RV-3
- Serial number
- 173
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- A1185F (octal 50214137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 6, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00112270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eaa Aviation Foundation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
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 N17RV, 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 Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 7, 2000, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 6, 1982, 11 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17RV 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 N17RV: Accident on July 28, 1983 at Twin Falls, ID: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vangrunsven RV-3 · operated under 091
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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 August 27, 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