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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Luce Larry VANS RV9A
N656G is a Luce Larry VANS RV9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 2:13 pm.
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Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luce Larry
- Model
- VANS RV9A
- Serial number
- 90289
- 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 · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A8A39A (octal 52121632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2023
- 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 · March 9, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00218219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cotter Kevin G
- 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
- 218 Indian Cliffs Dr
Chico, CA 95973-8868
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N656G links to the rest of the register
- Luce Larry 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-E2D 258 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Chico, CA 158 aircraft registered in this town
- Chico Regional · CIC
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2D 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2D 494 reports since 1995
- Where N656G is now · Last seen Friday at 2:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N656G, 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 Cotter Kevin G, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N656G 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 N656G. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data