Macniven Donald B VANS RV-4
N865DM is a Macniven Donald B VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 29, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Macniven Donald B
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 2574
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ABE1C1 (octal 52760701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 1995
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 29, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00765651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Macniven Donald B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5745 Torrisdale Vw
Colorado Springs, CO 80927-4234
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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 N865DM, 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 Macniven Donald B, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 1995, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 29, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2574 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N865DM 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 N865DM. 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