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N421RT

Boone Richard VANS RV8

Valid Texas

N421RT is a Boone Richard VANS RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2010 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 30, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Boone Richard
Model
VANS RV8
Serial number
82522
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A500DF (octal 51200337)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 7, 2010
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 30, 2010
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01053711

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Boone Richard
Type
Individual
Address
1510 15Th St
Wichita Falls, TX 76301-5117

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N421RT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Boone Richard, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2010, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 30, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82522 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N421RT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N421RT: Accident on December 4, 2021 at Wichita Falls, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN22LA071Accident on December 4, 2021 at Wichita Falls, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV8 · operated under 091

The pilot’s improper fuel management that resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA071 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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