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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Beckner Gregory M VANS RV 14A
N557GB is a Beckner Gregory M VANS RV 14A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 21, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beckner Gregory M
- Model
- VANS RV 14A
- Serial number
- 140-366
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14A
- Transponder code
- A71A04 (octal 51615004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 31, 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 · August 21, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01287243
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Choice William H III
- 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
- 1628 Wrenwood Lks
Houston, TX 77043-4742
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N557GB links to the rest of the register
- Beckner Gregory M 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming YIO-390 series 333 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Houston, TX 1,182 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N557GB.json.
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The public federal record on N557GB, 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 Choice William H III, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 21, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140-366 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N557GB 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 N557GB. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data