Fitzgerald Charles W RV-6
N78CF is a Fitzgerald Charles W RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fitzgerald Charles W
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 60016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
- Transponder code
- AA8E65 (octal 52507145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00264104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richmond Charles H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 101 Diamond Point Loop 55
Denison, TX 75020
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N78CF, 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 Richmond Charles H, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78CF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7305038, cancelled December 22, 1999); Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45206, cancelled December 27, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N78CF: Accident on October 6, 1991 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206-L-1 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM AND THE FAILURE OF THE CFI TO MONITOR THE CONTROLS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA92LA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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