Buschmann John R RV-7A
N397V is a Buschmann John R RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Red Baron Aviation LLC, an LLC in Clarinda, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 5, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buschmann John R
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 73174
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerosport O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A49EA5 (octal 51117245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 5, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01024774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Baron Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2707 Teak Ave
Clarinda, IA 51632-5530
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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 N397V, 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 Red Baron Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 20, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 5, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N397V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Star CAVALIER E (serial 122, cancelled October 16, 1938). 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 N397V. 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