Stites Robert RV-9A
N20YY is a Stites Robert RV-9A, 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 Church Hill, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stites Robert
- Model
- RV-9A
- Serial number
- 90778
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A191E7 (octal 50310747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 9, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00242959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Steven J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 223 Caldwell Rd
Church Hill, TN 37642-4713
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N20YY, 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 Smith Steven J, an individual, certificate issued October 29, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90778 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20YY 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]
1 NTSB record under N20YY: Accident on June 4, 2021 at West Portsmouth, OH: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Vans RV9 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper use of the airplane’s fuel system, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.
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