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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Gordon A Comfort VANS RV-8
N228GM is a Gordon A Comfort VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 15, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 4:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gordon A Comfort
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 80010
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A1FF5B (octal 50377533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 15, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01093660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joby Aero INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 340 Woodpecker Rdg
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-9797
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N228GM links to the rest of the register
- Gordon A Comfort 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-390 series 312 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Joby Aero INC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Cruz, CA 116 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-390 series 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-390 series 2 reports since 1995
- Where N228GM is now · Last seen Tuesday at 4:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N228GM, 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 17, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2026, 13 years after the 2013 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228GM 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 N228GM. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data