Benson/Lechner RV-8 FAST BACK
N38LB is a Benson/Lechner RV-8 FAST BACK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Avon, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Benson/Lechner
- Model
- RV-8 FAST BACK
- Serial number
- 82682
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B2E · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A459ED (octal 51054755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00452909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benson James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 327
Avon, CO 81620-0327
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 N38LB, 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 Benson James, an individual, certificate issued January 25, 2008, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82682 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38LB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brown Louis A SONERAI (serial 11, cancelled July 19, 1991). 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 N38LB. 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