Bowen James Austin Jr RV-8
N501JB is a Bowen James Austin Jr RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lake Tapps, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bowen James Austin Jr
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 81786
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A63E71 (octal 51437161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00449909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Jill
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 18202 17Th St E
Lake Tapps, WA 98391-9451 - Co-owners
- Bowen Justin
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N501JB, 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 Nelson Jill, a co-owned, certificate issued August 23, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81786 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N501JB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Garrett Larry L STARFLIGHT DBL (serial 001, cancelled September 27, 1999); Dawn Patrollers Inc. RK-1 JUNGSTER I (serial 6810771, cancelled March 2, 1989). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N501JB. 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