Hatch Craig RV-8A
N481CH is a Hatch Craig RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 27, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hatch Craig
- Model
- RV-8A
- Serial number
- 81481
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A3B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- A5EC8A (octal 51366212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 27, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00339469
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hatch Craig R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 352 SW Lockheed Ln
Lake City, FL 32025-1645
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N481CH, 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 Hatch Craig R, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 27, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81481 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N481CH 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 N481CH. 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