Callair A-9
N7220V is a Callair A-9, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carlisle, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 1980 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 21, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Callair
- Model
- A-9 · all A-9s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The CallAir crop sprayer. This is how the Callair A-9 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1257
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A9AD66 (octal 52326546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 1980
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 21, 1966
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00901397
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ridgway Rick J DBA
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 141 e County Road 1100 S
Carlisle, IN 47838-8228 - Co-owners
- Rick J Ridgway Flying Service
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N7220V links to the rest of the register
- Callair A-9 12 registered
- Callair 44 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Carlisle, IN 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N7220V, 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 Ridgway Rick J DBA, an individual, certificate issued December 22, 1980, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 21, 1966, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1257 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7220V 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 N7220V. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data