{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-08-05","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-01-24","city":"LYNCHBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42717","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-235","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Fletcher William Robert Jr","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FLETCHER WILLIAM ROBERT JR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05608BL","mode_s_code":"53042206","mode_s_hex":"AC4486","model":"VANS RV 3","n_number":"N89RV","name":"MILLER JAMES L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N89RV is a Fletcher William Robert Jr VANS RV 3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lynchburg, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 5, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Miller James L, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2026, 37 years after the 1989 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 11088 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N89RV according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N89RV. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"11088","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1805 RIDGEVIEW RUN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00774371","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N89RV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"373525928"}