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N331BB

Morgan Joseph B Iii VANS ACFT RV-8

Valid Arizona

N331BB is a Morgan Joseph B Iii VANS ACFT RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Prescott, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Morgan Joseph B Iii
Model
VANS ACFT RV-8
Serial number
81948
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A399A1 (octal 50714641)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 11, 2006
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 27, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00097219

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Morgan Joseph B III Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
8640 N Valley Oak Dr
Prescott, AZ 86305-7716
Co-owners
Morgan Paula K Trustee

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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 N331BB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Morgan Joseph B III Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued January 11, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81948 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N331BB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N331BB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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