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N685DL, a Evolution Aircraft Inc REVOLT
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N685DL

Evolution Aircraft Inc REVOLT

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N685DL is an Evolution Aircraft Inc REVOLT, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ashville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated July 13, 2022.

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Aircraft

Maker
Evolution Aircraft Inc
Model
REVOLT · all REVOLTs and related versions
Built of
aluminium tube and fabric
An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. A weight-shift trike: an aluminium-tube carriage under a sailcloth wing. This is how the Evolution Aircraft Inc REVOLT family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
001036
Type
Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A91620 (octal 52213040)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 2, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 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 · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 13, 2022
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01366779

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Howard David
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
275 Rock Haven Ests
Ashville, AL 35953-6503

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N685DL links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Ashville, AL 9 aircraft registered in this town
  • Alabama 4,341 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N685DL, 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 Howard David, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated July 13, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N685DL 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 N685DL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data