Keith Russell A VANS RV-9A
N1909K is a Keith Russell A VANS RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewiston, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Keith Russell A
- Model
- VANS RV-9A
- Serial number
- 91135
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-H2AD · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A16BC8 (octal 50265710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 5, 2009
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01024670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Keith Russell A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1 Bayberry Ln
Lewiston, ME 04240-1635
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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
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The public federal record on N1909K, 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 Keith Russell A, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2009, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1909K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8E (serial 4636, cancelled May 20, 2004). 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 N1909K: Accident on October 3, 2003 at Orange City, IA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Luscombe 8E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain obstacle clearance from the trees while manuevering at a low altitude. A factor was the trees.
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