Steve William Branson RV-8A
N1708A is a Steve William Branson RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vancouver, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Steve William Branson
- Model
- RV-8A
- Serial number
- 80968
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- A11C9E (octal 50216236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01254554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Branson Steve W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2915 NE 96Th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98662-7451
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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 N1708A, 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 Branson Steve W, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80968 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1708A 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 N1708A. 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