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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dustin C West VANS RV-7
N543DW is a Dustin C West VANS RV-7, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dustin C West
- Model
- VANS RV-7
- Serial number
- 70632
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A6E371 (octal 51561561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2024
- 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 builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 29, 2012
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01090753
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dudley John P
- 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
- 2642 Hemingway Ct
Arlington, TX 76006-3200
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N543DW links to the rest of the register
- Dustin C West 1 aircraft on the register
- Arlington, TX 253 aircraft registered in this town
- Arlington Municipal · GKY
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N543DW, 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 Dudley John P, an individual, certificate issued April 11, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 29, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N543DW according to the deregistered file. [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 N543DW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data