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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Oreilly Paul W KR2
N7970K is an Oreilly Paul W KR2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued March 21, 2017). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 7, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Oreilly Paul W
- Model
- KR2
- Serial number
- KR27970
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Hapi 60 · 60 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AAD468 (octal 52552150)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · March 7, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00268969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edwards James Evan Sterling
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10 Lodge Spring Rd
Cloudcroft, NM 88317-9203
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N7970K links to the rest of the register
- Oreilly Paul W 1 aircraft on the register
- Hapi 60 4 aircraft with this engine series · 60 hp
- Cloudcroft, NM 14 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,109 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N7970K.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7970K, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 7, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial KR27970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7970K 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 N7970K. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data