Matre Daniel A VANS RV8 STANDARD
N496EM is a Matre Daniel A VANS RV8 STANDARD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mount Crawford, Virginia. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 16, 2025. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Matre Daniel A
- Model
- VANS RV8 STANDARD
- Serial number
- 82262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A626D2 (octal 51423322)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01508518
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8786 E Timber Ridge Rd
Mount Crawford, VA 22841-2729
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N496EM, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N496EM according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N496EM. 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