Donald A Shoop RV-8
N23NS is a Donald A Shoop RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Angelo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Donald A Shoop
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 81486
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A20764 (octal 50403544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 4, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01126707
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nussey James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11254 Mount Nebo Rd
San Angelo, TX 76901-7043
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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
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The public federal record on N23NS, 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 Nussey James A, an individual, certificate issued December 31, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81486 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23NS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper AEROSTAR 601P (serial 61P08548163451, cancelled March 25, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N23NS: Accident on November 9, 1990 at Nacogdoches, TX: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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: Piper 601P · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW IFR PROCEDURES AND MAINTAIN THE PROPER ALTITUDE. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, DARK NIGHT, LOW FUEL STATE OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND TREES AT THE ACCIDENT SITE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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