Heath James Richard Iii VANS RV-7
N317AJ is a Heath James Richard Iii VANS RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gilbert, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Heath James Richard Iii
- Model
- VANS RV-7
- Serial number
- 7075
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A360DB (octal 50660333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 12, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00037139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hibpshman Albert
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 360 Downwind Leg Rd
Gilbert, SC 29054-8526 - Co-owners
- Hibpshman Jeanette
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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 N317AJ, 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 Hibpshman Albert, a co-owned, certificate issued November 1, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N317AJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maule MXT-7-180 (serial 14067C, cancelled September 8, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N317AJ. 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