Hammes Charles J RV8
N208CH is a Hammes Charles J RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bettendorf, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hammes Charles J
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A1AFF5 (octal 50327765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 19, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01413582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hammes Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3507 Redbud Ct
Bettendorf, IA 52722-5903
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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 1
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The public federal record on N208CH, 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 Hammes Charles, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N208CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL (serial 2452, cancelled December 14, 2009). 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 N208CH: Accident on April 13, 2009 at Haines, AK: serious 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: Aerospatiale AS350 B2 E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from snow-covered terrain during the landing approach in flat light conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC09LA031 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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