Tinsman James W RV-6
N42JT is a Tinsman James W RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Filtersource LLC, an LLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tinsman James W
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 20612
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A4FA20 (octal 51175040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 9, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00495421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Filtersource LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 328 S Link Ln Ste 14
Fort Collins, CO 80524-2741
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N42JT, 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 Filtersource LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 25, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20612 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42JT according to the deregistered file. [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 N42JT: Accident on September 13, 1992 at Foristell, MO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tinsman RV6 · operated under 091
THE PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT ARE THE PILOT'S INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE TO REACH THE RUNWAY FROM THE DOWNWIND LEG, AND THE PRESENCE OF TRANSMISSION WIRES IN THE OFF AIRPORT LANDING SITE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92DCA04 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