Kelley S Clark VANS ACFT INC RV-7
N870RV is a Kelley S Clark VANS ACFT INC RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to F & B Aviation INC, a corporation in Winter Haven, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 2, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kelley S Clark
- Model
- VANS ACFT INC RV-7
- Serial number
- 72243
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- ABF7E1 (octal 52773741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 2, 2016
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01195452
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- F & B Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 19 Aviation Dr
Winter Haven, FL 33881-1146
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N870RV, 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 F & B Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N870RV 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 N870RV. 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