Kewley David A VANS RV-7A
N25DK is a Kewley David A VANS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Manville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 21, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kewley David A
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70702
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A2557A (octal 50452572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 21, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00207929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kewley David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29453 N 848 East Rd
Manville, IL 61319-9641
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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 N25DK, 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 Kewley David A, an individual, certificate issued October 11, 2005, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 21, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70702 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N25DK was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Kewley David A KR-2 (serial 8287, cancelled August 22, 2005); Kames DSK-II HAWK (serial 740021, cancelled February 16, 1990). 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 N25DK: Accident on September 17, 1993 at Carbondale, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kewley KR2 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION DUE TO LACK OF FUEL.
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 September 30, 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