Macy Frank E RV8
N188R is a Macy Frank E RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Macy Frank E
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 81458
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A15FDB (octal 50257733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 22, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00218619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson James A Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1004
Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1004
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N188R, 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 Watson James A Trustee, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N188R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gates Learjet 25D (serial 305, cancelled November 14, 2000); Cessna 310F (serial 310-0146, cancelled January 4, 1966). 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 N188R. 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