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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Darin Harper/Rhonda Harper VANS RV-9A
N781DR is a Darin Harper/Rhonda Harper VANS RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Darin Harper/Rhonda Harper
- Model
- VANS RV-9A
- Serial number
- 92124
- 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 · Cont Motor IOX340 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2026
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- AA9498 (octal 52512230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- 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 · July 23, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01340947
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harper Darin M Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 780 Airport Way
Independence, OR 97351-9667 - Co-owners
- Harper Rhonda A Trustee
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N781DR links to the rest of the register
- Darin Harper/Rhonda Harper 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IOX340 series 58 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Independence, OR 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Independence State Airport · 7S5
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N781DR.json.
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The public federal record on N781DR, 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 Harper Darin M Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued May 3, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 92124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N781DR 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 N781DR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data