Kelsey T D VANS RV8
N148TJ is a Kelsey T D VANS RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Guthrie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2002 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kelsey T D
- Model
- VANS RV8
- Serial number
- 81514
- 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
- A0C21A (octal 50141032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2002
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 28, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00002719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kelsey T D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 60
Guthrie, TX 79236-0060
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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 N148TJ, 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 Kelsey T D, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2002, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81514 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N148TJ 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 N148TJ. 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