Somers Darrel G VANS RV-3
N9030F is a Somers Darrel G VANS RV-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Prado, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 9, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Somers Darrel G
- Model
- VANS RV-3
- Serial number
- 454
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC7CAF (octal 53076257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 9, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00401341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desouza Ferdinand E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2051
El Prado, NM 87529-2051
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9030F, 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 Desouza Ferdinand E, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 454 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9030F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 790104S, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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 N9030F. 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