Hester Bobby R Jr RV-7A
N857BH is a Hester Bobby R Jr RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 17, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hester Bobby R Jr
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 70172
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- ABC17A (octal 52740572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 17, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00243069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hester Bobby R JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 204 Dell Dr
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-4817
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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 N857BH, 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 Hester Bobby R JR, an individual, certificate issued March 23, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 17, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N857BH 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 N857BH. 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