Pickens M/Hicks L VANS RV7A
N477SP is a Pickens M/Hicks L VANS RV7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Leesburg, Virginia. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 25, 2004. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pickens M/Hicks L
- Model
- VANS RV7A
- Serial number
- 71402
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A5DCB9 (octal 51356271)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 25, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00090449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 535 Kalmia Sq NE
Leesburg, VA 20176-4014
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N477SP, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 25, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71402 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N477SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 281210, cancelled June 18, 1998). 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 21, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N477SP: Accident on October 30, 1995 at Lebanon, VA: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
failure of the propeller blade due to fatigue cracking originating from corrosion damage. A related factor was the soft terrain encountered during the forced landing.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data