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N656G

Luce 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.

Aircraft

Maker
Luce Larry
Model
VANS RV9A
Serial number
90289
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
Transponder code
A8A39A (octal 52121632)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 31, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 31, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 9, 2006
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00218219

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cotter Kevin G
Type
Individual
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cotter Kevin G, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N656G according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N656G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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