Darrin Schawang DES RV-7
N973RV is a Darrin Schawang DES RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Falls City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Darrin Schawang
- Model
- DES RV-7
- Serial number
- 73465
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- AD9055 (octal 53310125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 25, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01223386
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schawang Darrin E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 70718 656 Ave
Falls City, NE 68355-2468 - Co-owners
- Schawang Kim A
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N973RV, 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 Schawang Darrin E, a co-owned, certificate issued September 23, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 25, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73465 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N973RV 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 N973RV. 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