Peterson James C RV-14A
N981A is a Peterson James C RV-14A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Park Rapids, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Peterson James C
- Model
- RV-14A
- Serial number
- 140923
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14A
- Transponder code
- ADAEDB (octal 53327333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 7, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01445753
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peterson James C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17542 County 40
Park Rapids, MN 56470-6214
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 N981A, 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 Peterson James C, an individual, certificate issued April 8, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140923 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N981A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22 (serial 22-294, cancelled September 30, 1968). 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 N981A. 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 August 27, 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