James H Kelley RV-7
N5757K is a James H Kelley RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James H Kelley
- Model
- RV-7
- Serial number
- 70075
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A76453 (octal 51662123)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 15, 2025
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01509594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N5757K, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5757K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech V35 (serial D-8090, cancelled April 23, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5757K: Accident on February 19, 2001 at Wendover, UT: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech V35 · operated under 091
The pilot flying at an altitude insufficient to clear surrounding terrain. Contributing factors were the pilot becoming lost/disoriented, his subsequent spatial disorientation, and dark night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN01FA064 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
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