Scherder Thomas J VANS RV-8
N38NE is a Scherder Thomas J VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Walton, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 12, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Scherder Thomas J
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81133
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A45A22 (octal 51055042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 12, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00115309
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rountree Phillip D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10948 Appaloosa Dr
Walton, KY 41094-9653
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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 N38NE, 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 Rountree Phillip D, an individual, certificate issued September 17, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 2026, 22 years after the 2004 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 81133 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38NE 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 N38NE. 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