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N44JR

Rodgers Jerry/Gaust Gregory RV-6

N44JR is a Rodgers Jerry/Gaust Gregory RV-6, 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 Bishop, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Rodgers Jerry/Gaust Gregory
Model
RV-6
Serial number
24545
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A5491C (octal 51244434)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 13, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 29, 1997
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00176291

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rodgers Jerry T
Type
Individual
Address
487 E South St
Bishop, CA 93514-3548

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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

1995-04-03Pegasus Group Ltd GLASAIR SH-2 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response
—Pietenpol/Heglie P AIR CAMPER · B

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The public federal record on N44JR, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rodgers Jerry T, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N44JR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Pegasus Group Ltd GLASAIR SH-2 (serial 671R, cancelled April 3, 1995); Pietenpol/Heglie P AIR CAMPER (serial 1, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N44JR: Accident on November 1, 1997 at Wellington, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX98LA037Accident on November 1, 1997 at Wellington, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rodgers/Gaust RV-6 · operated under 091

Fuel starvation due to a fatigue fractured mixture control cable. Contributing factors were the soft, brush-covered emergency landing field.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98LA037 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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