{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-29","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-24","city":"DOWNERS GROVE","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-03"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Dewitt Richard","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEWITT RICHARD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05623WK","mode_s_code":"51347063","mode_s_hex":"A5CE33","model":"DEWITT RV6","n_number":"N473W","name":"SMUTNY JOSEPH R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"RICHARDS ROBERT F","plain_english":"N473W is a Dewitt Richard DEWITT RV6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Smutny Joseph R, a partnership in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smutny Joseph R, a partnership, certificate issued May 24, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 2001, 7 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20497 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N473W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 (serial 1413, cancelled September 27, 1939). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N473W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":2,"serial_number":"20497","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"746 86TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00674472","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N473W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"605164938"}