Moynihan Richard D VANS RV-7A
N787NV is a Moynihan Richard D VANS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boulder City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Moynihan Richard D
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 72097
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- AAABC7 (octal 52525707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 14, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01292201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moynihan Richard D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1313 Alpine Dr
Boulder City, NV 89005-2501
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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 N787NV, 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 Moynihan Richard D, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N787NV 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]
1 NTSB record under N787NV: Accident on February 19, 2022 at White Hills, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Moynihan Richard D VANS RV-7A · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper aerobatic maneuver leading to an airspeed that exceeded the airplane’s design limits, which resulted in rudder flutter and an in-flight breakup.
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- 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
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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
