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N947J

Newsum James D RV-6

Valid Arizona

N947J is a Newsum James D RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aguila, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 27, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Newsum James D
Model
RV-6
Serial number
60436
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2014
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
Transponder code
AD27F1 (octal 53223761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 2, 2014
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · January 27, 2015
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01147121

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Newsum James D
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 732
Aguila, AZ 85320-0732

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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 N947J, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Newsum James D, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 27, 2015, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60436 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N947J according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N947J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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