Lou Pappas VANS RV 7A
N65RW is a Lou Pappas VANS RV 7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Phoenix 65Rw LLC, an LLC in Fayetteville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 17, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lou Pappas
- Model
- VANS RV 7A
- Serial number
- 70152
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- A88BED (octal 52105755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 17, 2026
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01404472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phoenix 65Rw LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 130 Covey Xing
Fayetteville, GA 30215-7629
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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 3
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The public federal record on N65RW, 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 Phoenix 65Rw LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 18, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 17, 2026, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70152 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65RW was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Walden Robert VANS AIRCRAFT RV-7A (serial 72204, cancelled April 21, 2025); Beech B-80 (serial LD-404, cancelled June 19, 2001); Long Robert Warren WINDROSE (serial 021, cancelled date not given). 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 N65RW: Accident on September 13, 2024 at Williamsburg, VA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Walden Robert VANS AIRCRAFT RV-7A · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to continue with an unstabilized approach which resulted in a hard landing and loss of directional control during a subsequent landing.
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