Kirks James R VANS RV-7A
N3535Y is a Kirks James R VANS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clover, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kirks James R
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 72129
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A3F310 (octal 50771420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 8, 2020
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01035585
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Higgins James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5628 Creole Rd
Clover, SC 29710-7502
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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 N3535Y, 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 Higgins James, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2020, 11 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3535Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182F (serial 18254435, cancelled July 25, 2005). 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 N3535Y: Accident on January 31, 2003 at Wildorado, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 182F · operated under 091
The airplane collided with an animal that wandered onto the runway. A contributing factor was sun glare impairing the pilot's view on final approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA096 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