Sheffield Ray VANS RV8A
N127RS is a Sheffield Ray VANS RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 27, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sheffield Ray
- Model
- VANS RV8A
- Serial number
- 81559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- A06F3B (octal 50067473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 27, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00113319
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Durden Hugh
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 414 Ponte Vedra Blvd
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2817
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N127RS, 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 Durden Hugh, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 27, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N127RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Heli Co 500-E (serial 0206E, cancelled October 24, 1996). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N127RS. 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