N157GS1997 Sobek Gary A RV-6
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched2 service difficulty reports
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 20, 2026- Registered owner
- Individual owner
- Certificate issued
- Oct 19, 1995
- Expires
- Aug 31, 2028
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur Built
- Airworthiness date
- Jul 15, 2008
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Sobek Gary A
- Model
- RV-6
- Year
- 1997
- Serial number
- 20480
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Not Type Certificated
- Seats
- 2
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- A0E4D7
Engine
- Make and model
- Lycoming O-320-B2b
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 160 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 1995 – nowIndividual ownercurrent
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 20, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
ADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (2)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Equipment and furnishings · elt · false activationOct 14, 2019
AT ENGINE SHUT DOWN, HEARD ACK ELT E-04 BUZZER GOING OFF. ELT WAS UPGRADED IN JULY 2019. THIS WAS FIRST FALSE ALARM. FLEW FROM 18A TO NC25. FLIGHT WAS ABOUT 1.5-HOURS. LANDING WAS NOT PERFECT SMOOTH BUT G-METER HAD RECORDED 0.5 TO 1.7 G DURING TAKEOFF, FLIGHT, AND LANDING. I HAVE PHOTO OF G-METER…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number. - Fuel · pump · defectiveApr 25, 2011
EXPERIMENTAL FUEL BOOST PUMP PN PX375B-40A-5-25-F, SN 30313 01-10. NEW PUMP BENCH TESTED BEFORE INSTALLATION, WOULD NOT SELF PRIME. PUMP ALSO WOULD NOT MAKE ANY PRESSURE ONCE PRIMED AND OUTLET CLOSED OFF. PUMP WAS DIASSEMBLED AND INSPECTED. FOUND BAD DESIGN. O-RING NOT SEATED. THIS PUMP WAS…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 20, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 20, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026