The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N100WL

Weimar Gerald J/Lively Wade C RV-8

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N100WL is a Weimar Gerald J/Lively Wade C RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spring Branch, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 5, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Weimar Gerald J/Lively Wade C
Model
RV-8
Serial number
80683
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A3B6D · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2012
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A006B3 (octal 50003263)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 3, 2012
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 5, 2013
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01093099

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lively Wade C
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1014 Flightline Dr
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Co-owners
Weimar Gerald J

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

1996-08-26White Lightening Acft Corp WLAC-1 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N100WL, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lively Wade C, a co-owned, certificate issued May 3, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 5, 2013, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80683 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N100WL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: White Lightening Acft Corp WLAC-1 (serial 100, cancelled August 26, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N100WL: Accident on September 27, 1986 at Wilmington, DE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

BFO86FHD04Accident on September 27, 1986 at Wilmington, DE: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 100

Aircraft on the NTSB record: White Lightning Aircraft Corp. WLAC-1 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Request the full report for N100WLWhat the full report adds

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data