Martin Douglas E RV-4
N225BF is a Martin Douglas E RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dayton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 18, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin Douglas E
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 1247
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A1F3B3 (octal 50371663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 18, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00345321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lathrop Frederic W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 452 Schlatter Dr
Dayton, OH 45433-1144 - Co-owners
- Lathrop Wendy B
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N225BF, 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 Lathrop Frederic W, a co-owned, certificate issued February 3, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 18, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N225BF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-61N (serial 61722, cancelled May 15, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N225BF. 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