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Keith R Ellis Ii ELLIS RV-7A
N853DF is a Keith R Ellis Ii ELLIS RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eagan, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 3, 2018.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 10:16 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Keith R Ellis Ii
- Model
- ELLIS RV-7A
- Serial number
- 74594
- 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 · Eci IOX-360 · 188 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- ABB2CE (octal 52731316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 9, 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 · March 3, 2018
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01268678
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellis Keith Raymond III
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 22624
Eagan, MN 55122-0624
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N853DF links to the rest of the register
- Keith R Ellis Ii 2 aircraft on the register
- ECi IOX-360 26 aircraft with this engine series · 188 hp
- Eagan, MN 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,939 aircraft registered
- Where N853DF is now · Last seen October 7 at 10:16 am.
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The public federal record on N853DF, 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 Ellis Keith Raymond III, an individual, certificate issued May 30, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 3, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 74594 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N853DF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N853DF. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data