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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Dan Wells VANS RV-10
N4678 is a Dan Wells VANS RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. 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. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 13, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dan Wells
- Model
- VANS RV-10
- Serial number
- 40776
- 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 YIO-540 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2026
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10 QUICKBUILD
- Transponder code
- A5B70C (octal 51333414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 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 · July 13, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01537223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Dan
- 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
- 4678 W 8400 S
Payson, UT 84651-5707
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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 1
Connections how N4678 links to the rest of the register
- Dan Wells 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming YIO-540 SERIE 149 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Payson, UT 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fillet, cracked · 2024-02-08
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4678.json.
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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]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 13, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data