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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Murphy Thomas M RV8
N281X is a Murphy Thomas M RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Smithville, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:14 pm.
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Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Murphy Thomas M
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 002
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360 SERIES · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A2D3BF (octal 50551677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2024
- 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 · November 9, 2022
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01171630
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Selanders Jay N
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4940 W Gale Rd
Smithville, MO 64089-8321 - Co-owners
- Selanders Annie Presley
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N281X links to the rest of the register
- Murphy Thomas M 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,560 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Smithville, MO 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N281X is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:14 pm.
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The public federal record on N281X, 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 Selanders Jay N, a co-owned, certificate issued April 16, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 9, 2022, 7 years after the 2015 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 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N281X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maule M-5-210C (serial 6110C, cancelled February 13, 1996). 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 N281X. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data