Binse Gerald R BINSE RV-4
N98GB is a Binse Gerald R BINSE RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yuba City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Binse Gerald R
- Model
- BINSE RV-4
- Serial number
- 1470
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- ADA963 (octal 53324543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00694662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Binse Gerald R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1524 Camino Del Oro
Yuba City, CA 95993
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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 N98GB, 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 Binse Gerald R, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 1994, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1470 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98GB 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]
1 NTSB record under N98GB: Accident on July 16, 2026 at Yuba City, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV-4 · operated under 091
On July 16, 2026, at 0701 Pacific daylight time, an experimental amateur built Vans RV-4, N98GB, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Yuba City, California. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A review of recorded video from the Sutter County Airport, Yuba City, California, and a neighboring business, captured the airplane at various portions of the accident flight. One video showed the airplane departing runway 17 and then initiating a turn back to the airport. The airplane ov…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data