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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Meyers Industries Inc 200C
N197M is a Meyers Industries Inc 200C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Meyers Industries Inc
- Model
- 200C · all 200Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Meyers 200: a steel-tube cabin frame under aluminium skins. This is how the Meyers Industries Inc 200 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- A1833F (octal 50301477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 1964
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00353040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vrechek Joseph Rvt
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3300 NE 36Th St Apt 802
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308-6731
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N197M links to the rest of the register
- Meyers Industries Inc 200 28 registered
- Meyers Industries Inc 28 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Fort Lauderdale, FL 609 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Lauderdale Executive · FXE
- Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International · FLL
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport · DT1
- Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N197M, 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 Vrechek Joseph Rvt, an individual, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197M 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 N197M. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data