Dan Wells VANS RV-10
N4678 is a Dan Wells VANS RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Payson, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dan Wells
- Model
- VANS RV-10
- Serial number
- 40776
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10 QUICKBUILD
- Transponder code
- A5B70C (octal 51333414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01537223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Dan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4678 W 8400 S
Payson, UT 84651-5707
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4678, 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 Wells Dan, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40776 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4678 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Flannigan FLANNIGAN SAILWING (serial 1, cancelled May 21, 1976). 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 N4678: Accident on April 19, 2006 at Logan, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cubcrafters CC-18-180 · operated under 091
The pilot receiving instruction failed to maintain airplane directional control during the landing roll, and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision. An inadvertent ground loop was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06CA083 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
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