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N474JB

Brick John VANS RV-4

N474JB is a Brick John VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 21, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Brick John
Model
VANS RV-4
Serial number
3958
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
Transponder code
A5D0C0 (octal 51350300)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 31, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
April 2, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 21, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00171399

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Reitz Brian C
Type
Individual
Address
214 Bartlett St
Tehachapi, CA 93561-2206

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N474JB, 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 Reitz Brian C, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3958 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N474JB according to the deregistered file. [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 N474JB. 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