Sawyer Robert J RV-4
N74FA is a Sawyer Robert J RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Raton, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sawyer Robert J
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 513
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A9F0AF (octal 52370257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 5, 1992
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00335041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mangelsdorf David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 541
Raton, NM 87740-0541
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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
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The public federal record on N74FA, 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 Mangelsdorf David M, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 513 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74FA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech G18S (serial BA504, cancelled date not given). 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 N74FA: Accident on February 22, 1986 at Copperhill, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech G18S · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data