Eigsti Rodney E RV-4
N71RE is an Eigsti Rodney E RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Friend, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 21, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eigsti Rodney E
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 942
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A97B30 (octal 52275460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 21, 1995
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00604902
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eigsti Rodney E Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 308 State Highway 80E
Friend, NE 68359-2476 - Co-owners
- Eigsti Linda S Trustee
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N71RE, 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 Eigsti Rodney E Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued April 11, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 21, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 942 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71RE according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N71RE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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