Durkin Mike RV-7A
N978CM is a Durkin Mike RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cave Creek, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2010 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 23, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Durkin Mike
- Model
- RV-7A
- Serial number
- 71784
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
- Transponder code
- ADA19B (octal 53320633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2010
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 23, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01057970
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Durkin Mike F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7139 E Continental Mountain Dr
Cave Creek, AZ 85331-7614
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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 N978CM, 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 Durkin Mike F, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2010, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 23, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71784 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N978CM 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 N978CM. 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