James F Watts VANS ACFT INC RV-7A
N257WD is a James F Watts VANS ACFT INC RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lone Tree, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James F Watts
- Model
- VANS ACFT INC RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70654
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A27377 (octal 50471567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 5, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01292626
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watts James F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8774 Crooked Stick Ct
Lone Tree, CO 80124-8508
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N257WD, 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 Watts James F, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70654 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257WD 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 N257WD. 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