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N215W

Kaelberer Clyde RV7A

Valid Minnesota

N215W is a Kaelberer Clyde 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 Montrose, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Kaelberer Clyde
Model
RV7A
Serial number
73013
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2017
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
Transponder code
A1CE09 (octal 50347011)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 26, 2016
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 24, 2017
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01233174

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kaelberer Clyde
Type
Individual
Address
1695 108Th St SW
Montrose, MN 55363-8702

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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 2

1948-07-08Stinson SM-8A · Valid registration
—Beech G18S · B

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N215W, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kaelberer Clyde, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N215W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson SM-8A (serial 4024, cancelled July 8, 1948); Beech G18S (serial BA581, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N215W: Accident on June 30, 1983 at Keyser, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL83FA247Accident on June 30, 1983 at Keyser, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: BA 581

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech G18S · operated under 135

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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