Burton L Thomsen VANS RV-8
N217BT is a Burton L Thomsen VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Superior, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for delivery or export; evacuate from area of impending danger, dated June 30, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burton L Thomsen
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior XP-IO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A1D3AE (octal 50351656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Delivery or export; Evacuate from area of impending danger · June 30, 2017
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01254019
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blackstone Barry V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 474 Highway 14
Superior, NE 68978-7401
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N217BT, 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 Blackstone Barry V, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for delivery or export; evacuate from area of impending danger, dated June 30, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N217BT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N217BT. 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 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