Wade James M RV-4
N486JW is a Wade James M RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Calhoun City, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 1992 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 25, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wade James M
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 1398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A5FFC0 (octal 51377700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 1992
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 25, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00423792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wade James M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 659 County Road 418
Calhoun City, MS 38916-9663 - Co-owners
- Wade James E
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N486JW, 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 Wade James M, a co-owned, certificate issued March 6, 1992, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 25, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N486JW 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 N486JW. 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