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N2606A

Gaulden William D VANS RV-4

Valid Nevada

N2606A is a Gaulden William D VANS RV-4, 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 Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 18, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Gaulden William D
Model
VANS RV-4
Serial number
3270
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
Transponder code
A28228 (octal 50501050)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 28, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 28, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 18, 2006
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00273719

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Garrard Mark E
Type
Individual
Address
6545 Mahogany Ridge Dr
Reno, NV 89523-2857

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2606A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Garrard Mark E, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 18, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2606A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2606A: Accident on November 7, 2023 at London, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA24LA039Accident on November 7, 2023 at London, KY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gaulden William D VANS RV-4 · operated under 091

The pilot’s inadvertent application of nose down pitch trim during the attempted aborted landing, which resulted in abnormal contact with the runway.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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