Callen Melvin K RV-4
N870MC is a Callen Melvin K RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clovis, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 15, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Callen Melvin K
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 0001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- ABF76C (octal 52773554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00785201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kiesewetter James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3629 Linkwood Ln
Clovis, NM 88101-3138
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N870MC, 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 Kiesewetter James D, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 2011, 21 years after the 1990 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N870MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Callen Melvin K SKYBOLT/CALLEN (serial 1, cancelled August 29, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N870MC. 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