Luciani Luis E Jr RV8
N188LC is a Luciani Luis E Jr RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yuma, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luciani Luis E Jr
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 82306
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A15F61 (octal 50257541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00321329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Brandon L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11610 E 24Th Ln
Yuma, AZ 85367-2215
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N188LC, 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 Smith Brandon L, an individual, certificate issued December 15, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82306 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N188LC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 1147, cancelled November 30, 1988). 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 N188LC: Accident on May 20, 2007 at Tomball, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Luciani RV8 · operated under 091
The deflated right main landing gear tire, which resulted in a loss of control during the landing roll and a nose over. A factor associated with the accident was the pilot's decision to operate the airplane without having the leaking tire inspected.
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
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