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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Thomas Mel Jordan RV7A
N2157A is a Thomas Mel Jordan RV7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oro Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2017.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 12:49 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Mel Jordan
- Model
- RV7A
- Serial number
- 72562
- 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 · Superior XP IO400 SER · 215 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A1CF63 (octal 50347543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 4, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01259392
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jordan Thomas Mel
- 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
- 14289 N Silver Cloud Dr
Oro Valley, AZ 85755-4755
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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 5
Connections how N2157A links to the rest of the register
- Thomas Mel Jordan 2 aircraft on the register
- Superior Air Parts XP IO-400 series 2 aircraft with this engine series · 215 hp
- Oro Valley, AZ 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,426 aircraft registered
- Where N2157A is now · Last seen Saturday at 12:49 pm.
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The public federal record on N2157A, 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 Jordan Thomas Mel, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72562 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2157A was previously assigned to 5 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-7720055, cancelled May 17, 2001); Bell 412EP (serial 36087, cancelled May 26, 1995); Fountain Richard Allen RICHARDS AIR COMMAND (serial 507, cancelled April 17, 1990). 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 N2157A: Accident on September 7, 1982 at Liscomb, IA: fatal, substantial damage (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: Piper 28-236 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data