Kenworthy Mark A RV-9A
N717RL is a Kenworthy Mark A RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Double Rainbow Aviation LLC, an LLC in North Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kenworthy Mark A
- Model
- RV-9A
- Serial number
- 91651
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A99790 (octal 52313620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2009
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01027196
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Double Rainbow Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3661 Downwind Ln
North Fort Myers, FL 33917-7128
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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 1
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The public federal record on N717RL, 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 Double Rainbow Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91651 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N717RL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-7340050, cancelled January 8, 2018). 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 N717RL: Accident on November 13, 2012 at Jackson, MS: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which resulted in his failure to note the water in the fuel tank due to condensation, which subsequently shut down the engine in flight. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's self-induced pressure to expedite the departure.
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
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