Longjev Ltd RV-6A
N72159 is a Longjev Ltd RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Castle, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Longjev Ltd
- Model
- RV-6A
- Serial number
- 22632
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A9AA6C (octal 52325154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00536511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Geiger William G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2680 Drennon Rd
New Castle, KY 40050-7726
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N72159, 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 Geiger William G, an individual, certificate issued November 9, 2004, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 1997, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72159 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 337G (serial 33701531, cancelled October 1, 1993); Cessna 120 (serial 9326, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N72159: Accident on May 27, 2003 at Backus, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Longjev RV-6A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate flare and recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA137 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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