William R Palmer VANS RV9-A
N915P is a William R Palmer VANS RV9-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William R Palmer
- Model
- VANS RV9-A
- Serial number
- 90856
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- ACAA83 (octal 53125203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 7, 2012
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01102032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith JR Franklin R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 809 Angels Peak Dr
Rock Hill, SC 29732-2855
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N915P, 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 Smith JR Franklin R, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90856 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N915P 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 N915P. 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