Paul Berkovitz VANS RV-10
N626PB is a Paul Berkovitz VANS RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westlake Village, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 7, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Paul Berkovitz
- Model
- VANS RV-10
- Serial number
- 42088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A82DCE (octal 52026716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 7, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01329945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Berkovitz Paul
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2051 Dewberry Ct
Westlake Village, CA 91361-1810
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N626PB, 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 Berkovitz Paul, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 7, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N626PB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brunkhorst Paul R ZODIAC CH 601 HD (serial 63992, cancelled July 22, 2008). 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 N626PB: Accident on May 3, 2025 at Simi Valley, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Paul Berkovitz VANS RV-10 · operated under 091
On May 3, 2025, about 1350 Pacific daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Van’s RV-10, N626PB, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Simi Valley, California. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airplane departed General Wm J. Fox Airfield (WJF), Lancaster, California about 1319, on an instrument flight rules flight plan with an intended destination of Camarillo Airport (CMA), Camarillo, California. Recorded communication between the pilot and Southern California App…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data