Hefel Lyle VANS ACFT RV-8
N458KS is a Hefel Lyle VANS ACFT RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rockwood, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2005 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 28, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hefel Lyle
- Model
- VANS ACFT RV-8
- Serial number
- 80038
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A590C6 (octal 51310306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2005
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 28, 1998
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00886921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willard John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 281 Birches Rd
Rockwood, ME 04478
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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 N458KS, 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 Willard John, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2005, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 28, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N458KS 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 N458KS. 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