Walling R A VANS RV-3A
N34WC is a Walling R A VANS RV-3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Vanguard Squadron INC, a corporation in Tea, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 12, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Walling R A
- Model
- VANS RV-3A
- Serial number
- 811-4
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A3BCEC (octal 50736354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 12, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00742403
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanguard Squadron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 47010 Great Plains Pl Ste 2
Tea, SD 57064-8038
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N34WC, 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 Vanguard Squadron INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 12, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 811-4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N34WC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-793, cancelled March 3, 1981). 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 N34WC: Accident on March 28, 2012 at Larchwood, IA: fatal, substantial damage (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: Walling Vans RV-3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane after landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA209 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
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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