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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Vans Aircraft Inc VANS RV-7
N477RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc VANS RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for crew training; market survey, dated November 14, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 8:47 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- VANS RV-7
- Serial number
- 71702
- 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 O-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A5DCA6 (octal 51356246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- 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 · Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 56 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 14, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00092169
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vans Aircraft INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14401 Keil Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9467
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N477RV links to the rest of the register
- Vans Aircraft Inc 966 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-D1A 116 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Vans Aircraft INC 34 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 269 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-D1A 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-D1A 23 reports since 1995
- Where N477RV is now · Last seen October 10 at 8:47 am.
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The public federal record on N477RV, 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 Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 19, 2004, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 14, 2025, 21 years after the 2004 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 71702 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N477RV according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N477RV. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data