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N711RT

Thaxton Robert W VANS RV-7

Valid Louisiana

N711RT is a Thaxton Robert W VANS RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Thaxton Robert W
Model
VANS RV-7
Serial number
70199
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
Transponder code
A9814D (octal 52300515)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 2015
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2005
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00191749

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell David C
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 25
Broussard, LA 70518-0025

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N711RT, 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 Bell David C, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N711RT 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N711RT: Accident on November 11, 1983 at Houston, TX: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW84LA056Accident on November 11, 1983 at Houston, TX: no injuries, minor damage.serial on NTSB record: 414A0281

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 414A · operated under 091F

See FTW84LA056A

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84LA056 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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