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N497BW

Dorance Giddings RV-9A

N497BW is a Dorance Giddings RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 23, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Dorance Giddings
Model
RV-9A
Serial number
90762
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2014
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
Transponder code
A62A47 (octal 51425107)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 11, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 23, 2014
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01131223

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Swartz Taylor A
Type
Co-owned
Address
845 Satinwood Ct
Fayetteville, NC 28312-8110
Co-owners
Swartz Kelly M

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.

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