Whaylen Donald G VANS RV-8
N478KT is a Whaylen Donald G 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 Newnan, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 16, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Whaylen Donald G
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81807
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A5DFC5 (octal 51357705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 16, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00148419
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fuller Thomas V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 200 Jackson St
Newnan, GA 30263-1562
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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 N478KT, 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 Fuller Thomas V, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 16, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81807 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N478KT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32R-300 (serial 32R7780138, cancelled date not given). 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 N478KT: Accident on September 17, 1984 at Linden, NJ: fatal, destroyed (6 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FA314 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