Ketter Ralph J RV-6
N556RV is a Ketter Ralph J RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Luz, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 29, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ketter Ralph J
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 24556
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
- Transponder code
- A71740 (octal 51613500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 29, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00236659
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ketter Ralph J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27 Jj Henry Rd
La Luz, NM 88337-9427
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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 N556RV, 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 Ketter Ralph J, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 29, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N556RV 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 N556RV. 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