{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-27","city":"CLAYTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-27","maker":"Pitts Vernon D","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PITTS VERNON D","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05606SD","mode_s_code":"50144677","mode_s_hex":"A0C9BF","model":"RV-4","n_number":"N15VP","name":"HARDWICK ALAN R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Burgaw","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-11-26","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"MIA02LA033","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.","registration":"N15VP","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on November 26, 2001 at Burgaw, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"TOMS RIVER","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-04-16","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC84FA138","probable_cause":"","registration":"N15VP","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on April 16, 1984 at Toms River, NJ: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N15VP is a Pitts Vernon D RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clayton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hardwick Alan R, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1793 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N15VP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-C33 (serial CD1024, cancelled April 20, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N15VP: Accident on November 26, 2001 at Burgaw, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 16, 1984 at Toms River, NJ: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1793","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"40 BONAVENTURE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00183776","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N15VP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"275279320"}