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N228RV

Adamson Dag R VANS RV8A

Valid Colorado

N228RV is an Adamson Dag R VANS RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elbert, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 11, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Adamson Dag R
Model
VANS RV8A
Serial number
81588
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
A20044 (octal 50400104)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 2019
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 11, 2006
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00290919

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Von Dane William Edward
Type
Individual
Address
24790 Kolstad Loop
Elbert, CO 80106-9500

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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 N228RV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Von Dane William Edward, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 11, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N228RV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N228RV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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