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N833EW

Willie C Williams RV-7A

N833EW is a Willie C Williams RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 7, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Willie C Williams
Model
RV-7A
Serial number
70158
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
Transponder code
AB63F8 (octal 52661770)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 13, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 13, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 7, 2019
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01224789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Helms Thomas Sanford
Type
Individual
Address
204 Victory Landing Loop
Columbia, SC 29206-5303

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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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N833EW, 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 Helms Thomas Sanford, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N833EW 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 N833EW. 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