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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Nilsson Bruno Y RV-4
N42BN is a Nilsson Bruno Y RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Henderson, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 21, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nilsson Bruno Y
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 1814
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A4F96C (octal 51174554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 21, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00333299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nilsson Bruno y
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 36 Via Vasari Unit 201
Henderson, NV 89011-3745 - Co-owners
- Nilsson Birgitta
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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
Connections how N42BN links to the rest of the register
- Nilsson Bruno Y 1 aircraft on the register
- Mattituck TMX 360 81 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Henderson, NV 418 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,591 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N42BN.json.
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The public federal record on N42BN, 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 Nilsson Bruno y, a co-owned, certificate issued April 27, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 21, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1814 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42BN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Berry Timothy Lee VANS RV-4 (serial 2394, cancelled May 14, 2004). 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 N42BN: Accident on February 2, 1997 at York, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Berry VANS RV-4 · operated under 091
the pilot's delay in initiating a go-around, and his failure to maintain airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/mush and contact with the terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data