Pfeiffer Don A RV8
N311D is a Pfeiffer Don A RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in White Salmon, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pfeiffer Don A
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 81159
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A34AD3 (octal 50645323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 14, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00093919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coombs Joshua B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 269 NW Lincoln St
White Salmon, WA 98672-8939
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N311D, 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 Coombs Joshua B, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N311D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E18S (serial BA 456, cancelled May 15, 1975). 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 N311D. 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