Bowden Melvin H VANS RV7
N728M is a Bowden Melvin H VANS RV7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bowden Melvin H
- Model
- VANS RV7
- Serial number
- 72202
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- A9C257 (octal 52341127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 18, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00225579
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rose John Wesley II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5909 Balsa Pl NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-6264
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N728M, 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 Rose John Wesley II, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N728M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 284879, cancelled November 3, 1997). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N728M. 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