Ortscheid Robert A RV-9
N4850B is an Ortscheid Robert A RV-9, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ortscheid Robert A
- Model
- RV-9
- Serial number
- 90055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9
- Transponder code
- A5FD86 (octal 51376606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 2026
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01067925
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roehrig James R JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6910 Acton Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46259-1220
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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
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The public federal record on N4850B, 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 Roehrig James R JR, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 8, 2026, 15 years after the 2011 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 90055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4850B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283672, cancelled January 8, 2002). 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 N4850B: Accident on May 22, 1999 at Slidell, LA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
The student pilot's delayed landing flare and her subsequent improper recovery technique following the bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99LA144 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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