Frank Owens VANS RV7
N18GT is a Frank Owens VANS RV7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gainesville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Frank Owens
- Model
- VANS RV7
- Serial number
- RV7-72915
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior IO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A13EFB (octal 50237373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 5, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01405108
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Potsdam Eric
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1039 NE 4Th St
Gainesville, FL 32601-4349
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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 N18GT, 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 Potsdam Eric, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2023, 8 years after the 2015 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 RV7-72915 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18GT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Folland Aircraft Co Ltd GNAT T 1 (serial XS105, cancelled January 11, 2018). 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]
1 NTSB record under N18GT: Accident on July 29, 2013 at Georgetown, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Folland Aircraft CO LTD GNAT T 1 · operated under 091
The loss of airplane control for reasons that could not be determined due to postcrash fire damage. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to perform an aerobatic maneuver at low altitude, which did not allow sufficient time for him to regain airplane control.
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