Ruffatto Michael J RV-7
N23AM is a Ruffatto Michael J RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ruffatto Michael J
- Model
- RV-7
- Serial number
- 74167
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A20633 (octal 50403063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 17, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01215661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zubek Mariusz
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1020 Beech Bay Rd
Poplar Grove, IL 61065-8242
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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
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The public federal record on N23AM, 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 Zubek Mariusz, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 74167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23AM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1497, cancelled January 23, 2002); Gates Learjet 25D (serial 223, cancelled February 6, 1980). 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 N23AM: Accident on May 22, 2001 at Gaylord, MI: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 58 · operated under 091
the pilot not maintaining directional control during the reported loss of number one engine power during initial climb and the pilot not following the airplane emergency procedure's corrective action for engine failure after lift-off, and the inadvertent stall/spin he encountered. Factors were the high grass on the runway, the runway grass cutting maintenance not being performed by the pilot/airstrip owner, and the unsuitable terrain used by the pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data