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N21471

Mears James R VANS RV4

Valid Indiana

N21471 is a Mears James R VANS RV4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Porte, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 30, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Mears James R
Model
VANS RV4
Serial number
3426
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
Transponder code
A1CBC5 (octal 50345705)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 13, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 13, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 30, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00976032

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gourley Adam C
Type
Individual
Address
714 W 18Th St
La Porte, IN 46350-6458

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1971-10-01Convair 440 · exported to Bolivia · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data