Trom Wayne VANS RV6A
N646RV is a Trom Wayne VANS RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Imagine Air LLC, an LLC in Nogales, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Trom Wayne
- Model
- VANS RV6A
- Serial number
- 20333
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2C · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A87D10 (octal 52076420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 9, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01030253
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Imagine Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2021 N Old Patagonia Rd
Nogales, AZ 85621-1274
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N646RV, 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 Imagine Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 7, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 9, 2015, 6 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20333 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N646RV 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]
2 NTSB records under N646RV: Accident on September 16, 2022 at Aztec, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on April 11, 2015 at Lafayette, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Trom Wayne VANS RV6A · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on available evidence. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to turn away from a suitable emergency landing surface, his failure to maintain adequate airspeed as the airplane neared the ground, and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Trom Wayne VANS RV6A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll in variable, gusting wind conditions, resulting in a runway excursion, and substantial damage to the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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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