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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026John Ragozzino VANS RV-9
N5400U is a John Ragozzino VANS RV-9, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fountain Hills, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built; to show compliance with regulations, dated January 16, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- John Ragozzino
- Model
- VANS RV-9
- Serial number
- 90527
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O235N2C · 120 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9
- Transponder code
- A6DA57 (octal 51555127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur built; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 20 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 16, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01273997
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ragozzino John C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 15202 e Lotus Ln
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268-4321
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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
Connections how N5400U links to the rest of the register
- John Ragozzino 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O235N2C 18 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Fountain Hills, AZ 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O235N2C 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O235N2C 55 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5400U, 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 Ragozzino John C, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; to show compliance with regulations, dated January 16, 2020, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90527 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5400U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Kauble Richard H CHALLENGER II (serial CH20288B0288, cancelled October 11, 2003); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-20324, cancelled August 17, 1967). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5400U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data