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N34CV

Needham Ron D 173/FGXL

Valid Illinois

N34CV is a Needham Ron D 173/FGXL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Darien, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 1997 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 26, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Needham Ron D
Model
173/FGXL
Serial number
3FX005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A3BB3B (octal 50735473)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 10, 1997
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 26, 2011
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00806901

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Needham Ron D
Type
Co-owned
Address
7406 Richmond Ave
Darien, IL 60561-4119
Co-owners
Needham Cathy M

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N34CV, 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 Needham Ron D, a co-owned, certificate issued December 10, 1997, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 26, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3FX005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N34CV 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N34CV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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