Ruley Paul B RV-7A
N277PM is a Ruley Paul B RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in West Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ruley Paul B
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 73461
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-B2C · 168 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A2C1CE (octal 50540716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 20, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01255130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruley Paul B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 6121 Gallegos Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47906 - Co-owners
- Ruley Mary Grafton
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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 1
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The public federal record on N277PM, 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 Ruley Paul B, a co-owned, certificate issued August 15, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73461 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N277PM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B0143, cancelled July 1, 2004). 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 N277PM: Accident on December 18, 2002 at Rockford, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the ILS approach. Factors associated with the accident were the low ceilings, high winds, crosswind, and wind shear conditions that existed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03FA041 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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