Raymond Lee Findly VANS RV-8
N284RF is a Raymond Lee Findly VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ravenna, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Raymond Lee Findly
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-375 · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A2DE54 (octal 50557124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 29, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01416964
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Findly Raymond L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3152 Tipton Rdg
Ravenna, KY 40472-8949
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N284RF, 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 Findly Raymond L, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N284RF 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 N284RF. 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 August 27, 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