Gatewood Ronald L LANCAIR IV
N7SF is a Gatewood Ronald L LANCAIR IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dalhart, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 18, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gatewood Ronald L
- Model
- LANCAIR IV
- Serial number
- LAIV098
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A95172 (octal 52250562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 18, 2010
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00115072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Byrd Cody
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 95
Dalhart, TX 79022-0095
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 1
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The public federal record on N7SF, 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 Byrd Cody, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 18, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LAIV098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7SF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-31A (serial 7332114, cancelled October 25, 1991). 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 N7SF: Accident on May 12, 1990 at Davis Park, NY: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Bellanca 17-31A · operated under 091
THE AIRPLANE IMPACTING THE WATER AT A HIGH SPEED FOR UNKNOWN REASON(S).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC90GA105 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
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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