Steve Barnes VANS RV-4
N876MD is a Steve Barnes VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Delray Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Steve Barnes
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 3687
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- AC0DB7 (octal 53006667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01229328
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Downs Michael J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6969 Skyline Dr
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2209
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N876MD, 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 Downs Michael J, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3687 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N876MD 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 N876MD. 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