Towner Miles Allen VANS RV-6A
N40ST is a Towner Miles Allen VANS RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Towner Miles Allen
- Model
- VANS RV-6A
- Serial number
- T106A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4ABEA (octal 51125752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00255771
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avera Stewart
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7510 Gunter Rd
Pensacola, FL 32526-3805
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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 N40ST, 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 Avera Stewart, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T106A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40ST was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7405183, cancelled October 7, 2008). 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 N40ST: Accident on July 11, 2006 at Easton, WA: fatal, destroyed (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: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 135
The loss of power in both engines for undetermined reasons while in cruise flight, leading to an attempted forced landing. Factors include unfavorable winds at the site of the forced landing, and trees off the approach end of the grass runway the pilot was attempting to land on.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06FA139 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
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