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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Hamilton Gary L VANS AIRCRAFT RV-7A
N769RV is a Hamilton Gary L VANS AIRCRAFT RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cornelius, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 1, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 6:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hamilton Gary L
- Model
- VANS AIRCRAFT RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70371
- 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 IO-360-C1C6 · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- AA6482 (octal 52462202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 1, 2008
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00234979
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Winston James R
- 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
- 20619 Torrence Chapel Rd
Ste 116-1225
Cornelius, NC 28031
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N769RV links to the rest of the register
- Hamilton Gary L 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C6 64 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Cornelius, NC 39 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-C1C6 34 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-C1C6 103 reports since 1995
- Where N769RV is now · Last seen October 15 at 6:43 pm.
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The public federal record on N769RV, 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 Winston James R, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 1, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70371 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N769RV 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 N769RV. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data