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N486W

Woolman Alex RV-9A

Valid Colorado

N486W is a Woolman Alex RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Woolman Alex
Model
RV-9A
Serial number
91435
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320-A1A · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
Transponder code
A600D7 (octal 51400327)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 6, 2024
Expires
March 31, 2031
Last FAA action
March 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 31, 2008
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00416129

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coyne Thomas E
Type
Individual
Address
8234 Three Eagles Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80528-9359

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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 2

1998-12-10Beech 35-B33 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1939-04-03Stearman 4CM-1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N486W, 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 Coyne Thomas E, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91435 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N486W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 35-B33 (serial CD483, cancelled December 10, 1998); Stearman 4CM-1 (serial 4034, cancelled April 3, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N486W: Accident on September 19, 1998 at San Jose, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX98FA297Accident on September 19, 1998 at San Jose, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: CD-483

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 35-B33 · operated under 091

the pilot's loss of aircraft control and entry into a spiral dive for undetermined reasons. The dark night lighting conditions and the pilot's probable low recent flight experience were factors in this accident.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98FA297 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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