Dial John Richard DIAL/VANS RV-6
N89DD is a Dial John Richard DIAL/VANS RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Midvale Air Research LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dial John Richard
- Model
- DIAL/VANS RV-6
- Serial number
- 60268
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
- Transponder code
- AC434A (octal 53041512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00092199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midvale Air Research LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N89DD, 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 Midvale Air Research LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. 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 60268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N89DD was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Blue Ray 3 (KITFOX) (serial 245R, cancelled August 31, 1999); Denney Dan KITFOX MODEL 2 (serial 245, cancelled December 28, 1993). 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]
1 NTSB record under N89DD: Accident on December 4, 1997 at Caldwell, ID: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Blue Denney KITFOX MODEL 3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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