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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N4573

Valentine William H VALENTINE-HATZ

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesVirginia

N4573 is a Valentine William H VALENTINE-HATZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Glen Allen, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 1996.

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Aircraft

Maker
Valentine William H
Model
VALENTINE-HATZ
Serial number
101
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 · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A58EDE (octal 51307336)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 11, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 11, 2026
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 · September 16, 1996
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00325611

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
White James JR
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7462 Brandiston St
Glen Allen, VA 23059-6621

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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 3

2018-05-30Bell 206B · Sale reported, canceled
1981-12-23Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A · Valid registration
1969-08-25Beech D18C · exported to Colombia · Valid registration

Connections how N4573 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Glen Allen, VA 35 aircraft registered in this town
  • Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4573, 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 White James JR, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4573 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 5308, cancelled May 30, 2018); Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1061, cancelled December 23, 1981); Beech D18C (serial CA-165, cancelled August 25, 1969). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4573. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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

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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data