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N494BW

Anderson Edward L RV-6 (KIT BUILD)

Valid Missouri

N494BW is an Anderson Edward L RV-6 (KIT BUILD), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Anderson Edward L
Model
RV-6 (KIT BUILD)
Serial number
21926
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A61F22 (octal 51417442)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 12, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 24, 1998
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00936321

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Morris Samuel
Type
Individual
Address
7036 Amherst Ave
Saint Louis, MO 63130-2330

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N494BW, 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 Morris Samuel, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N494BW according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N494BW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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