Steven A Rigdon/Cheri A Rigdon ELA ECLIPSE EVO 916
N782DF is a Steven A Rigdon/Cheri A Rigdon ELA ECLIPSE EVO 916, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Apple Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Steven A Rigdon/Cheri A Rigdon
- Model
- ELA ECLIPSE EVO 916
- Serial number
- 03247171026
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- ELA AVIATION USA INC ELA ECLIPSE EVO 916
- Transponder code
- AA9845 (octal 52514105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 15, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01465655
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigdon Cheri A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 22305 Little Beaver Rd
Apple Valley, CA 92308-7327 - Co-owners
- Rigdon Steven A
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N782DF, 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 Rigdon Cheri A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 28, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03247171026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N782DF 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 N782DF. 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