Babcock David A RV-4
N49DB is a Babcock David A RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Puyallup, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Babcock David A
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 3389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A60E0C (octal 51407014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 3, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00035512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Babcock David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16927 126Th Ave E
Puyallup, WA 98374-9544
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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 N49DB, 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 Babcock David A, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 1995, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N49DB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27161, cancelled June 14, 1993). 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 N49DB: Accident on May 20, 1991 at Gasquet, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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-23-250 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S DECISION TO ATTEMPT VFR FLIGHT IN A NARROW MOUNTAIN VALLEY IN CONDITIONS OF LOW CEILINGS AND MOUNTAIN OBSCUREMENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA220 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