Smith Steven D VAN RV6A
N5556S is a Smith Steven D VAN RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sanger, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Steven D
- Model
- VAN RV6A
- Serial number
- 24078
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
- Transponder code
- A71539 (octal 51612471)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 8, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01391837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Steven D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10650 Sky Ln
Sanger, TX 76266
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5556S, 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 Smith Steven D, an individual, certificate issued March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5556S 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]
1 NTSB record under N5556S: Accident on July 18, 2009 at New Braunfels, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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