Ortiz James H RV4
N594CE is an Ortiz James H RV4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2010 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ortiz James H
- Model
- RV4
- Serial number
- 4177
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A7AC7A (octal 51726172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2010
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00303946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bertsch Paul J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 590112
Houston, TX 77259-0112
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N594CE, 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 Bertsch Paul J, an individual, certificate issued June 23, 2010, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N594CE 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 N594CE. 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 September 30, 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