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N7304W

Anthony R Whitehurst MK IV HEAVY HAULER

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N7304W is an Anthony R Whitehurst MK IV HEAVY HAULER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Los Banos, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Anthony R Whitehurst
Model
MK IV HEAVY HAULER
Serial number
4385X
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
AVID AIRCRAFT AVID FLYER
Transponder code
A9CE04 (octal 52347004)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 3, 2017
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01219887

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whitehurst Joel A JR
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 2217
Los Banos, CA 93635-2217
Co-owners
Whitehurst Anthony R

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1985-08-13Piper PA-28-180 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N7304W, 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 Whitehurst Joel A JR, a co-owned, certificate issued May 3, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4385X for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7304W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-1160, cancelled August 13, 1985). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7304W: Accident on July 22, 1982 at Hartsburg, IL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI82FA266Accident on July 22, 1982 at Hartsburg, IL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 28-1160

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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