Cone Timothy E VANS RV-8
N218TC is a Cone Timothy E VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fresno, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cone Timothy E
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- TC 82071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-B1A · 168 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A1D8E6 (octal 50354346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00376809
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cone Timothy E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4467 W Vandegrift
Fresno, CA 93722
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N218TC, 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 Cone Timothy E, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC 82071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N218TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2 (serial 2033USA, cancelled November 8, 2000). 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 N218TC. 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