Mears James R VANS RV4
N21471 is a Mears James R VANS RV4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Porte, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mears James R
- Model
- VANS RV4
- Serial number
- 3426
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A1CBC5 (octal 50345705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00976032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gourley Adam C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 714 W 18Th St
La Porte, IN 46350-6458
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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 N21471, 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 Gourley Adam C, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 2007, 7 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3426 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21471 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 440 (serial 471, cancelled October 1, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N21471. 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 August 27, 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