Watkins Robert M RV-7A
N916RJ is a Watkins Robert M RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 15, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Watkins Robert M
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 72828
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- ACAE75 (octal 53127165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 15, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01023436
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watkins Robert M Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 757 Corsair Dr
Independence, OR 97351-9434 - Co-owners
- Watkins Judith A Trustee
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N916RJ, 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 Watkins Robert M Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 15, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N916RJ 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 N916RJ. 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 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