Threet 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Threet Richard L
- Model
- VANS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 71000
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 18, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00090899
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eskridge William
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 718 Kershaw St
Cheraw, SC 29520-2615 - Co-owners
- Rushing Jackson
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA19LA232 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