Smith Garrett RV-7A
N257S is a Smith Garrett RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Belvidere, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Garrett
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 71733
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A2730F (octal 50471417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00382089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Siegrist Gary D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2973 Country Meadow Ln
Belvidere, IL 61008-8511
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 N257S, 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 Siegrist Gary D, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 30, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71733 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N257S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin 404 (serial 14110, cancelled October 11, 1983). 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 N257S. 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