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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Threet Richard L VANS RV-7A
N849GS is a Threet Richard L VANS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Cheraw, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 18, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Threet Richard L
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 71000
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- ABA1EF (octal 52720757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · May 18, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00090899
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eskridge William
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 718 Kershaw St
Cheraw, SC 29520-2615 - Co-owners
- Rushing Jackson
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N849GS links to the rest of the register
- Threet Richard L 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360-A1A 601 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Cheraw, SC 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Cheraw Muni/Lynch Bellinger Field · CQW
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1A 103 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N849GS.json.
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The public federal record on N849GS, 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 Eskridge William, a co-owned, certificate issued September 28, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 18, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N849GS 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]
1 NTSB record under N849GS: Accident on July 19, 2019 at Ocean City, MD: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV7 · operated under 091
The disconnection of the propeller governor control arm from the propeller governor due to a missing attachment bolt, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power during takeoff when the governor control vibrated to a high pitch, low rpm setting.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data