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N7857Y

Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN

Valid Texas

N7857Y is an Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1964. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 14, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerovodochody
Model
L-29 DELFIN · all L-29 DELFINs and related versions
Serial number
490925
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbojet, 1 motor · Motorlet M-701C · 1960 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1964
Transponder code
AAA67D (octal 52523175)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 18, 2004
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · May 14, 1996
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00964962

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cole Gary L
Type
Individual
Address
34 E Kitty Hawk St
Richmond, TX 77469-9709

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7857Y, 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 Cole Gary L, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2004, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 14, 1996, 32 years after the 1964 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 490925 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7857Y according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7857Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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