Schaffer David AVID MARK IV
N108DS is a Schaffer David AVID MARK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pahrump, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schaffer David
- Model
- AVID MARK IV
- Serial number
- 1233D
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A022C8 (octal 50021310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00094432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bade John W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1160 Mitchell Pl
Pahrump, NV 89060-2687
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N108DS, 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.
Valid registration to Bade John W, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1233D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N108DS according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N108DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data