Michael David Inman VANS RV8
N398RV is a Michael David Inman VANS RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Raeford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 6, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael David Inman
- Model
- VANS RV8
- Serial number
- 82349
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A4A20C (octal 51121014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 6, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01381475
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Inman Michael David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7072 Fayetteville Rd
Raeford, NC 28376-8395
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N398RV, 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 Inman Michael David, an individual, certificate issued May 30, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 6, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N398RV 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 N398RV. 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