Stuart T Smith VANS AIRCRAFT RV8
N120SJ is a Stuart T Smith VANS AIRCRAFT RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer Lake, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 9, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stuart T Smith
- Model
- VANS AIRCRAFT RV8
- Serial number
- 81634
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A0554B (octal 50052513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 9, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01176215
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fessler Steven W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 593 Highway 105
Palmer Lake, CO 80133-9004
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N120SJ, 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 Fessler Steven W, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 9, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81634 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N120SJ 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 N120SJ. 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