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N717SD

Sugata Das RV-9A

Valid Texas

N717SD is a Sugata Das RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2015. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Sugata Das
Model
RV-9A
Serial number
92223
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Superior XP-360 · 170 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
Transponder code
A997A2 (octal 52313642)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 22, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 7, 2015
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01186262

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cowling David L
Type
Co-owned
Address
202 Reef Ave Apt 507
Corpus Christi, TX 78402-1637
Co-owners
Corry Thomas F

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Documents on file 2

2026-09-24Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-24Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N717SD, 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 Cowling David L, a co-owned, certificate issued December 22, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 92223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N717SD according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 24, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N717SD. 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 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