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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N557RA

Aronow Richard A RV-7A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N557RA is an Aronow Richard A RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 6, 2009.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aronow Richard A
Model
RV-7A
Serial number
72359
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 · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
Transponder code
A71AE4 (octal 51615344)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 11, 2008
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
October 16, 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 · February 6, 2009
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01009590

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aronow Richard A
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
1031 1St St S Apt 405
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250-6554

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N557RA links to the rest of the register

Design
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Place
  • Jacksonville Beach, FL 28 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N557RA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aronow Richard A, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 6, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N557RA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N557RA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data