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N21779

Everett Elmo RV-4

N21779 is an Everett Elmo RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lancaster, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Everett Elmo
Model
RV-4
Serial number
1580
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A1D6F2 (octal 50353362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 18, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 1994
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00174822

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tanner Johnathan E
Type
Individual
Address
43300 Gadsden Ave Apt 215
Lancaster, CA 93534-6059

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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

1991-02-15Cessna 188B · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N21779, 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 Tanner Johnathan E, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21779 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 188B (serial 18801029, cancelled February 15, 1991). 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 N21779: Accident on July 31, 1988 at York, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

MKC88LA143Accident on July 31, 1988 at York, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18801029

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 188 · operated under 137

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 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