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N257S

Smith Garrett RV-7A

Valid Illinois

N257S is a Smith Garrett RV-7A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Belvidere, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 30, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Smith Garrett
Model
RV-7A
Serial number
71733
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV7A
Transponder code
A2730F (octal 50471417)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 2012
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 30, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00382089

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Siegrist Gary D
Type
Individual
Address
2973 Country Meadow Ln
Belvidere, IL 61008-8511

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

1983-10-11Martin 404 · Administratively canceled

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