Wilson David L RV-8
N297NW is a Wilson David L 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 Anderson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilson David L
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 81450
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A310BC (octal 50610274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 5, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00063814
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kight Daniel H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 324 Regency Cir
Anderson, SC 29625-2537
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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 N297NW, 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 Kight Daniel H, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N297NW 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 N297NW. 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