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N45GK

Knievel Gerald VANS ACFT RV-6A

Valid Colorado

N45GK is a Knievel Gerald VANS ACFT RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aurora, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Knievel Gerald
Model
VANS ACFT RV-6A
Serial number
24104
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2001
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
Transponder code
A57063 (octal 51270143)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 22, 2000
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 31, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00235860

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Knievel Gerald J
Type
Individual
Address
14711 E Penwood Pl
Aurora, CO 80015-2240

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Documents on file 1

2026-08-31Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N45GK, 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 Knievel Gerald J, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2000, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N45GK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N45GK. 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

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

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