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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Smart R/Bell G RV8A
N246DD is a Smart R/Bell G RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 26, 2011.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:01 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smart R/Bell G
- Model
- RV8A
- Serial number
- 82884
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-360 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- A24698 (octal 50443230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 2011
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01064036
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smart Roger M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 326 Hideaway Hills Dr
Hot Springs, AR 71901-8842
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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
Connections how N246DD links to the rest of the register
- Smart R/Bell G 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IO-360 32 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Hot Springs, AR 90 aircraft registered in this town
- Memorial Field · HOT
- Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 85 reports since 1995
- Where N246DD is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:01 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N246DD.json.
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The public federal record on N246DD, 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 Smart Roger M, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 26, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N246DD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210L (serial 21061522, cancelled March 10, 2005). 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 N246DD. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data