Elwell Charles W Jr RV-7A
N253CE is an Elwell Charles W Jr RV-7A, 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 Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 3, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Elwell Charles W Jr
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70915
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A262DA (octal 50461332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2011
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 3, 2017
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01064095
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elwell Charles W JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4759 Ocean Blvd
Destin, FL 32541-5702
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N253CE, 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 Elwell Charles W JR, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2011, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 3, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70915 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N253CE according to the deregistered file. [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 N253CE. 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 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