Inhofe James M / Davis Jim VANS RV-8
N4546Y is an Inhofe James M / Davis Jim VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Padre Company LLC, an LLC in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Inhofe James M / Davis Jim
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81168
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A58439 (octal 51302071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 21, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00144114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Padre Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1611 S Utica Ave #242
Tulsa, OK 74104-4909
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N4546Y, 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 Padre Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 10, 2002, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81168 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4546Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-4168, cancelled December 23, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N4546Y: Accident on June 22, 2011 at Sheridan, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Inhofe/ Davis VANS RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11LA280 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data