Luke Rainstar VANS ACFT RV-8
N26MG is a Luke Rainstar VANS ACFT RV-8, 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 Bowie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 14, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Luke Rainstar
- Model
- VANS ACFT RV-8
- Serial number
- 80971
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A27DBE (octal 50476676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 14, 2005
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00663877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitmus Christopher A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 4149 Hildreth Pool Rd
Bowie, TX 76230-6511
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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 N26MG, 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 Whitmus Christopher A, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 14, 2005, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80971 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26MG 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 N26MG. 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