David W Groat VANS RV-10
N1861G is a David W Groat VANS RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kestrel Aviation LLC, an LLC in Marion, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David W Groat
- Model
- VANS RV-10
- Serial number
- 41389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A15978 (octal 50254570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01203166
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kestrel Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 250 Bhong Ln
Marion, MT 59925-9707
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1861G, 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 Kestrel Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1861G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7ECA (serial 601, cancelled March 25, 1993). 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 N1861G. 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