Rathje Norm RV-7A
N555YF is a Rathje Norm RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wills Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rathje Norm
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A7142A (octal 51612052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 17, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00111699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rathje Norm
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 131 Pr 7002
Wills Point, TX 75169
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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 N555YF, 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 Rathje Norm, an individual, certificate issued June 8, 2004, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 17, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N555YF 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 N555YF: Accident on October 22, 2005 at Reklaw, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans Aircraft RV7A · operated under 091
The failure of the nose landing gear assembly for undetermined reasons, resulting in a nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA009 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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