David B Ford RV10
N197D is a David B Ford RV10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 4, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David B Ford
- Model
- RV10
- Serial number
- 40738
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mattituck TMX-540 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A18277 (octal 50301167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 4, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01231581
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ford David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7397 W Blue Rd
Lake City, MI 49651-8943
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
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The public federal record on N197D, 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 Ford David B, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 4, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N197D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Denight Ronald A 100D2 (serial PL4-1, cancelled May 3, 2006). 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 N197D: Accident on September 16, 2005 at Hudson, CO: 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: Denight 100D2 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed resulting in an inadvertent stall/spin.
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