Dixon Silas RV 4
N9120Q is a Dixon Silas RV 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Batesville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dixon Silas
- Model
- RV 4
- Serial number
- 2278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- ACA080 (octal 53120200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 21, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00505492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richey John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 280 N 18Th St
Batesville, AR 72501-3103
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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 N9120Q, 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 Richey John D, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9120Q 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]
1 NTSB record under N9120Q: Accident on September 9, 2005 at Grafton, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dixon RV-4 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to contamination of the fuel system, gascolator and carburetor inlet screen. A factor to the accident was the soybean crop.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data