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N954CH

Hagerty Charles J RV-7A

Valid Virginia

N954CH is a Hagerty Charles J RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Goode, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Hagerty Charles J
Model
RV-7A
Serial number
71991
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2012
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
Transponder code
AD43BD (octal 53241675)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2012
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 15, 2012
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01107163

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hagerty Charles J
Type
Individual
Address
1725 Old Cifax Rd
Goode, VA 24556-2930

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N954CH, 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 Hagerty Charles J, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71991 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N954CH 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N954CH: Accident on June 15, 2013 at Altoona, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA13LA288Accident on June 15, 2013 at Altoona, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hagerty RV-7A · operated under 091

The pilot's improper recovery from an encounter with a wind gust during landing, which resulted in a hard landing on, and displacement of, the nose landing gear and a subsequent runway excursion and noseover.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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