Gibson Ralph D RV-8A
N1976 is a Gibson Ralph D RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gibson Ralph D
- Model
- RV-8A
- Serial number
- 81953
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- A18556 (octal 50302526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 22, 2019
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00070219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gibson Ralph D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 37014 Asher Rd
Mechanicsville, MD 20659-2874
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N1976, 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 Gibson Ralph D, an individual, certificate issued December 29, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81953 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1976 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 727-23 (serial 18432, cancelled November 21, 1997); Curtiss JN-4 (CANADIAN) (serial X-750, cancelled April 30, 1930). 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 N1976. 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