Richard S Blaes RICHARD BLAES RV-7
N5559B is a Richard S Blaes RICHARD BLAES RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Big Stone City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Richard S Blaes
- Model
- RICHARD BLAES RV-7
- Serial number
- 71818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming X(I)O 320 · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A71593 (octal 51612623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 13, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01238257
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weckman Jim L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 87
Big Stone City, SD 57216-0087
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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 N5559B, 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 Weckman Jim L, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. 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 71818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5559B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raven Industries Inc. RALLY RX7 (serial RX7149, cancelled February 8, 1994); Cessna 182 (serial 33559, cancelled September 4, 1956). 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 N5559B. 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 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
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