Wade RV4
N84887 is a Wade RV4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; amateur built, dated December 13, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wade
- Model
- RV4
- Serial number
- 1971
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- ABA121 (octal 52720441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Amateur built · December 13, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00533946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wade James T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5242 Teakwood Dr
Oakley, CA 94561-1627
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 3
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The public federal record on N84887, 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 Wade James T, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; amateur built, dated December 13, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1971 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N84887 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 172K (serial 17258654, cancelled February 16, 1973); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-3606, cancelled March 28, 1949); Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA (serial 0400, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N84887. 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 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