Robens Jane F QUESTAIR VENTURE
N4QV is a Robens Jane F QUESTAIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robens Jane F
- Model
- QUESTAIR VENTURE
- Serial number
- 078
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-G · 280 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- QUESTAIR INC VENTURE
- Transponder code
- A4A961 (octal 51124541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 6, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00364079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fox Will E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1985 Camino Redondo
Los Alamos, NM 87544-2747
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4QV, 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 Fox Will E, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4QV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bacon Roger D QUESTAIR VENTURE LX (serial 43, cancelled March 24, 1997). 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 N4QV: Accident on January 21, 1995 at Des Moines, IA: 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: Bacon QUESTAIR-VENTURE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the emergency descent, resulting in a stall/spin. Factors were material defects in the material used to manufacture the crankshaft, resulting in the crankshaft fracturing after approximately 200 hours in service.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95FA071 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