William L Bell VANS RV-7A
N40WB is a William L Bell VANS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lorton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 2, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William L Bell
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 71857
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A4AC3E (octal 51126076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 2, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01277673
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Kimberly A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10544 Anita Dr
Lorton, VA 22079-3527 - Co-owners
- Black Sean C
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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 2
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The public federal record on N40WB, 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 Bell Kimberly A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 8, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 2, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40WB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bernard William R Jr TAILWIND W-10 (serial 98-1100, cancelled September 9, 2009); Bernard William R Jr MUSTANG II (serial 551, cancelled August 25, 2003). 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 N40WB: Accident on September 13, 2022 at Warrenton, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: William L Bell VANS RV-7A · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because the airplane could not be examined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA416 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