Stucky Steven D RV-7
N283S is a Stucky Steven D RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wake Turbulence CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 29, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stucky Steven D
- Model
- RV-7
- Serial number
- 73041
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A2DAB0 (octal 50555260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2009
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 29, 2009
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01027883
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wake Turbulence CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 N283S, 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 Wake Turbulence CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 23, 2009, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 29, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N283S 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]
1 NTSB record under N283S: Accident on July 16, 2022 at Topeka, KS: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stucky Steven D RV-7 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control while performing an aerobatic maneuver on takeoff, which resulted in exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack, a subsequent aerodynamic stall, and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s impairment from alcohol consumption before the flight.
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- 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
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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