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N8506L

Van Meter Gary RW-20 STORK

N8506L is a Van Meter Gary RW-20 STORK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carpinteria, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Van Meter Gary
Model
RW-20 STORK
Serial number
RW-20-01
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABAA8D (octal 52725215)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 12, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00343069

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Meter Gary S
Type
Individual
Address
1271 Franciscan Ct Unit 1
Carpinteria, CA 93013-1250

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

—Piper PA-25-235 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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