Walker James A RV-7A
N196VA is a Walker James A RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Walker James A
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior IO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A18051 (octal 50300121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00235009
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Speyer Paul G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4826 Bridgewater Rd
Birmingham, AL 35243-2616
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N196VA, 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 Speyer Paul G, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196VA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N196VA. 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