Patterson Don K VANS RV7A
N9717A is a Patterson Don K VANS RV7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Patterson Don K
- Model
- VANS RV7A
- Serial number
- 72172
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- AD8AAA (octal 53305252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 21, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01047566
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lashley Graham C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 708 Wayne Dr
Raleigh, NC 27608-1546
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9717A, 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 Lashley Graham C, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 21, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9717A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19178, cancelled July 30, 1956). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9717A. 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