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N5400U

John Ragozzino VANS RV-9

Valid Arizona

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.

Aircraft

Maker
John Ragozzino
Model
VANS RV-9
Serial number
90527
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O235N2C · 120 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2019
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9
Transponder code
A6DA57 (octal 51555127)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 1, 2018
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built; To show compliance with regulations · January 16, 2020
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01273997

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ragozzino John C
Type
Individual
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

2003-10-11Kauble Richard H CHALLENGER II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1967-08-17Piper PA-28-140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ragozzino John C, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; to show compliance with regulations, dated January 16, 2020, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90527 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5400U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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