Hoffman R J/Rich W K 7RH
N9171N is a Hoffman R J/Rich W K 7RH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Asheboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hoffman R J/Rich W K
- Model
- 7RH
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 4A235 SERIES · 135 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- ACB334 (octal 53131464)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 4, 2026
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00083814
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bainville Scott L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1002 Breezeway Ct
Asheboro, NC 27203
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N9171N, 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 Bainville Scott L, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 2026, 25 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9171N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500 S (serial 3119, cancelled February 13, 1995). 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 N9171N: Accident on December 11, 1994 at Millington, TN: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Aero Commander 500S · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT OF THE AIRCRAFT, IN THAT HE DID NOT ENSURE THAT THERE WAS ADEQUATE FUEL FOR THE FLIGHT, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION.
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
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