Varner David L VANS RV-8
N51LV is a Varner David L VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Castle Rock, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Varner David L
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81871
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A66024 (octal 51460044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 31, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00458089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Neal Darren I
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 830 Dales Pony Dr
Castle Rock, CO 80104-7811
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N51LV, 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 Neal Darren I, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 2016, 8 years after the 2008 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81871 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51LV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB (serial 1111-2012, cancelled June 4, 2012). 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]
1 NTSB record under N51LV: Accident on May 12, 2021 at Watkins, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Varner David L VANS RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA227 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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