Raphael J/Edwards J VANS RV-6A
N42JR is a Raphael J/Edwards J VANS RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying Rn'S LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raphael J/Edwards J
- Model
- VANS RV-6A
- Serial number
- 24516
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
- Transponder code
- A4FA1E (octal 51175036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 13, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00983724
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Rn'S LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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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 N42JR, 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 Flying Rn'S LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42JR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Roddie Jackson MINI-500 (serial 0259, cancelled January 8, 2000). 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 N42JR: Accident on September 9, 1997 at Idabel, OK: 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: Roddie MINI-500 · operated under 091
The loss of control in flight for undetermined reasons. A factor was the pilot's lack of total experience in helicopters.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA339 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