Perry George Ernest RV-6
N51101 is a Perry George Ernest RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sweitz-Air Iinc, a corporation in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 15, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Perry George Ernest
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 23985
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
- Transponder code
- A66798 (octal 51463630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 15, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00263109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sweitz-Air Iinc
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 13332 Mount Olivet Rd
Stewartstown, PA 17363-8426
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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 N51101, 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 Sweitz-Air Iinc, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23985 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51101 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-802A (serial 802A-0154, cancelled May 28, 2003); Cessna 172P (serial 17274267, cancelled October 21, 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 N51101: Accident on November 17, 1990 at Atlantic Ocean, AO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
DELAY OF THE PILOT TO OBTAIN ASSISTANCE AND, AS A RESULT, HE DITCHED THE AIRPLANE NEAR A BOAT DUE TO A LOW FUEL SUPPLY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA91LA027 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