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N495KB

Ga8 Airvan (Pty) Ltd GA8-TC320

Valid Minnesota

N495KB is a Ga8 Airvan (Pty) Ltd GA8-TC320, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Wipaire INC, a corporation in South Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey, dated July 7, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Ga8 Airvan (Pty) Ltd
Model
GA8-TC320
Serial number
GA8-TC 320-11-168
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AH1A · 300 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A6238E (octal 51421616)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
April 22, 2021
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development; Market survey · July 7, 2026
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01127921

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wipaire INC
Type
Corporation
Address
Fleming Field Airport
1700 Henry Ave
South Saint Paul, MN 55075-3500

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N495KB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wipaire INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 7, 2026, 15 years after the 2011 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-TC 320-11-168 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N495KB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N495KB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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