Dewitt Richard DEWITT RV6
N473W is a Dewitt Richard DEWITT RV6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Smutny Joseph R, a partnership in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dewitt Richard
- Model
- DEWITT RV6
- Serial number
- 20497
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A5CE33 (octal 51347063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 29, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00674472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smutny Joseph R
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 746 86Th St
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4938 - Co-owners
- Richards Robert F
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N473W, 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 Smutny Joseph R, a partnership, certificate issued May 24, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 2001, 7 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N473W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 (serial 1413, cancelled September 27, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N473W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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