Lauritsen Ralph M RV 4
N50036 is a Lauritsen Ralph M RV 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lauritsen Ralph M
- Model
- RV 4
- Serial number
- 693
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A63CD0 (octal 51436320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 14, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00604391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vetterman Larry D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13020 Bay View Ln
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7430
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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
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The public federal record on N50036, 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 Vetterman Larry D, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 693 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50036 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15069027, cancelled July 7, 1977); Cessna T-50 (serial 5268, cancelled December 22, 1948). 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 N50036: Accident on May 21, 2014 at Rockwell City, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Lauritsen Ralph M RV 4 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA264 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data