Fenton D S/Garry R B VANS RV-8
N439RV is a Fenton D S/Garry R B VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Nibley Aeroworks LLC, an LLC in La Canada, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 15, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fenton D S/Garry R B
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81030
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A54618 (octal 51243030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 15, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00162649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nibley Aeroworks LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Nibley Aeroworks
4385 Bel Air Dr
La Canada, CA 91011
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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 N439RV, 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 Nibley Aeroworks LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 30, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 15, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N439RV 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 N439RV. 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