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N987AC

Openshaw Allan R R-V4

Valid Nevada

N987AC is an Openshaw Allan R R-V4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Openshaw Allan R
Model
R-V4
Serial number
987
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
Transponder code
ADC528 (octal 53342450)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 29, 2007
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 23, 2004
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00655862

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Knight Tracy D
Type
Individual
Address
9472 Navajo Ridge Dr
Reno, NV 89506-4519

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N987AC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Knight Tracy D, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2007, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 987 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N987AC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N987AC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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