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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Preston Leslie J VANS RV-7
N951LP is a Preston Leslie J VANS RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Battle Ground, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 24, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 3:04 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Preston Leslie J
- Model
- VANS RV-7
- Serial number
- 72470
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- AD3966 (octal 53234546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00391589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Giere Steven M
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10609 NE 272Nd St
Battle Ground, WA 98604-6423 - Co-owners
- Giere Sharlee M
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N951LP links to the rest of the register
- Preston Leslie J 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IO-360 32 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Battle Ground, WA 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Cedars North Airport · W58
- Goheen Airport · W52
- Washington 10,568 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 85 reports since 1995
- Where N951LP is now · Last seen October 14 at 3:04 pm.
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The public federal record on N951LP, 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 Giere Steven M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 1, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 24, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72470 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N951LP 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 N951LP. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data