Suits David L RV-8
N3887P is a Suits David L RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Stateline, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Suits David L
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83887
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A47C5D (octal 51076135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01376662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Suits David L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 4135
Stateline, NV 89449-4135
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3887P, 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 Suits David L, an individual, certificate issued November 27, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3887P was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper/Stevens PA 18 150 (serial LC001, cancelled August 30, 2006); Piper PA-18-150 (serial 184720, cancelled October 14, 1988); Bell 412 (serial 33071, cancelled April 13, 1983). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3887P: Accident on April 5, 2006 at Hollandale, MS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper/Stevens PA18A-150 · operated under 091
The pilots failure to maintain control of the airplane. A contributing factor was the pilots impairment.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06FA095 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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