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N981

Shepherd John RV-6

Pending California

N981 is a Shepherd John RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hollister, California. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 26, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Shepherd John
Model
RV-6
Serial number
20981
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2001
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6
Transponder code
ADAEDA (octal 53327332)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
August 10, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 26, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00793735

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
1360 Black Forest Dr
Hollister, CA 95023-6817

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 2

1995-07-25Bell UH-1F · Administratively canceled
1931-08-11Travel Air Mfg Co 2000 · Valid registration

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