Margiotta Michael A RV-8
N3545W is a Margiotta Michael A RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alexandria, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Margiotta Michael A
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83926
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A3F6C5 (octal 50773305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 13, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01458961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Margiotta Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 217 N Saint Asaph St
Alexandria, VA 22314-2516
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N3545W, 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 Margiotta Michael A, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 13, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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 83926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3545W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32432, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3545W: Accident on October 17, 2025 at Mckinney, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 10, 1984 at Lafayette, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV8 · operated under 091
On October 17, 2025, at 0921 central daylight time, an amateur-built RV-8 airplane, N3545W, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near McKinney, Texas. The pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to local authorities, the airplane impacted terrain 1 nautical mile north of Aero County Airport (T31) in McKinney, Texas, under unknown circumstances. According to witness information, the pilot reported via radio communications that he experienced an engine issue while attempting to la…
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-260 · operated under 091
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data