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N511SF

Sanford William M RV-8

N511SF is a Sanford William M RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lopez Island, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 19, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Sanford William M
Model
RV-8
Serial number
81483
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A666BC (octal 51463274)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 28, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 28, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 19, 2002
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00104004

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fowler Ronald W
Type
Individual
Address
478 Airport Rd
Lopez Island, WA 98261-8217

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N511SF, 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 Fowler Ronald W, an individual, certificate issued June 28, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N511SF 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 N511SF. 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