Rudberg Todd W VANS ACFT RV8
N232TB is a Rudberg Todd W VANS ACFT RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kettle Falls, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2003 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 5, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rudberg Todd W
- Model
- VANS ACFT RV8
- Serial number
- 81315
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A21199 (octal 50410631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2003
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00060259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rudberg Todd W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1259J Highway 25 S
Kettle Falls, WA 99141-5165
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N232TB, 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 Rudberg Todd W, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2003, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 5, 2019, 16 years after the 2003 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 81315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N232TB 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]
1 NTSB record under N232TB: Accident on September 17, 2017 at Manzanita, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rudberg Todd W VANS ACFT RV8 · operated under 091
The airplane’s collision with two elks during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA541 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data