Horton William RV-8
N123SS is a Horton William RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Schell Aerospace LLC, an LLC in Warrensburg, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Horton William
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 80711
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A06078 (octal 50060170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 22, 2002
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00153614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schell Aerospace LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 419 NE 251St Rd
Warrensburg, MO 64093-8208
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N123SS, 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 Schell Aerospace LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80711 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N123SS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-31ATC (serial 7431079, cancelled June 15, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N123SS: Accident on December 1, 1996 at Fitzgerald, GA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 17-31ATC · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to the blockage of the intake manifold of the induction air system, by the broken alternate air door, and the loss of aircraft control for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data