Merchant Dean C VANS AIRCRAFT RV-8
N349DM is a Merchant Dean C VANS AIRCRAFT RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yorktown, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 18, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Merchant Dean C
- Model
- VANS AIRCRAFT RV-8
- Serial number
- 81556
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A3DF14 (octal 50757424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 18, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01007138
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ritter John A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 107 Ivy Arch
Yorktown, VA 23693-4443
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N349DM, 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 Ritter John A, an individual, certificate issued November 9, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 18, 2020, 10 years after the 2010 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 81556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N349DM 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 N349DM. 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