Christmann Michael VANS RV8
N190GE is a Christmann Michael VANS RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 1, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christmann Michael
- Model
- VANS RV8
- Serial number
- 81689
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A168C6 (octal 50264306)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 11, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 1, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00164849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1139 Buckbrush Rd
Minden, NV 89423-7863
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N190GE, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N190GE 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]
1 NTSB record under N190GE: Accident on April 21, 2011 at Locust Grove, GA: no 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: Vans RV8 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the takeoff roll.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data