Mccaw Denny VANS RV-7A
N3QW is a Mccaw Denny VANS RV-7A, 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 Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 23, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mccaw Denny
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70647
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A31C13 (octal 50616023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 23, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00037179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Porterfield Bruce A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5495 Goldenrod Dr
Reno, NV 89511-9052 - Co-owners
- Porterfield Anita M
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3QW, 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 Porterfield Bruce A, a co-owned, certificate issued May 11, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 23, 2004, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70647 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3QW according to the deregistered file. [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 N3QW. 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