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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Callan Bryan P RV-7
N985BD is a Callan Bryan P RV-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kindred, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Callan Bryan P
- Model
- RV-7
- Serial number
- 73545
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2A · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-7
- Transponder code
- ADBDD4 (octal 53336724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 3, 2014
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01140733
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lesmeister Dean
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 590 Dakota St
Kindred, ND 58051-4204
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N985BD links to the rest of the register
- Callan Bryan P 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-E2A 100 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Kindred, ND 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Robert Odegaard Field · K74
- North Dakota 2,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2A 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2A 83 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N985BD.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N985BD, 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 Lesmeister Dean, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985BD 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 N985BD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data