Bob Knighton/Dave Fortuna/Hugo WBY RV-9A
N40BY is a Bob Knighton/Dave Fortuna/Hugo WBY RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lowell, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bob Knighton/Dave Fortuna/Hugo
- Model
- WBY RV-9A
- Serial number
- 91232
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A4AA78 (octal 51125170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 5, 2026
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01092625
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Massengill Brad
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17370 Hoshaw St
Lowell, IN 46356-9399
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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 N40BY, 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 Massengill Brad, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2026, 14 years after the 2012 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 91232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40BY was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A765, cancelled June 30, 1988). 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 N40BY. 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