Thielsen T Keeling-Garcia RV-4
N23PJ is a Thielsen T Keeling-Garcia RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gig Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thielsen T Keeling-Garcia
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 2420
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A20775 (octal 50403565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01316431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Keeling-Garcia Thielsen T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5420 138Th St NW
Gig Harbor, WA 98332-9112
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N23PJ, 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 Keeling-Garcia Thielsen T, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23PJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45269, cancelled November 20, 2002). 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 N23PJ: Accident on February 16, 2002 at New Smyrna Bch., FL: fatal, destroyed (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: Bell 206L-1 · operated under 135
The pilot continued visual flight into instrument conditions that resulted in the in-flight collision with trees. Factor were the pilot's alcohol impaired condition, and low cloud conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02FA048 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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