Cook Christopher RV-8
N261CC is a Cook Christopher RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbus, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 30, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cook Christopher
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 82373
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A282E9 (octal 50501351)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 30, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01290594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cook Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3419 Ethel Ave
Columbus, GA 31906-1154
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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 N261CC, 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 Cook Christopher, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 30, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82373 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N261CC 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 N261CC. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data