Stofer Gerhard VANS RV-8
N427GS is a Stofer Gerhard 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 Concord, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 12, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stofer Gerhard
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 80199
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A51647 (octal 51213107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 12, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00102519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stofer Gerhard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1753 Landana Dr
Concord, CA 94519-1401
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N427GS, 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 Stofer Gerhard, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2004, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 12, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N427GS 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 N427GS. 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