Gary L Burch RV-8
N225SM is a Gary L Burch RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 15, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gary L Burch
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83164
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Superior XP-400 · 215 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A1F530 (octal 50372460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 15, 2018
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01274822
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgrath William F JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2639
Nantucket, MA 02584-2639
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N225SM, 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 Mcgrath William F JR, an individual, certificate issued January 18, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 15, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83164 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N225SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Agusta Aerospace Corp AW139 (serial 41213, cancelled August 24, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N225SM. 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