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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Sunrise Aviation Inc RV6A
N911DB is a Sunrise Aviation Inc RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sunrise Aviation Inc
- Model
- RV6A
- Serial number
- 23455
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
- Transponder code
- AC9AAF (octal 53115257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 9, 2005
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00185389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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 2
Connections how N911DB links to the rest of the register
- Sunrise Aviation Inc 4 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360-A1A 601 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1A 103 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N911DB.json.
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The public federal record on N911DB, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N911DB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell OH-58A (serial 72-21189, cancelled March 18, 2002); Grumman G-1159 (serial 100, cancelled March 22, 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 N911DB: Accident on October 22, 2001 at Bartow, FL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Bell OH-58A · operated under 091
The pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC, and his failure to maintain altitude, resulting in an in-flight collision with the ground. Factors in this accident were fog, and dark night.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data