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N526KP

Payne Steven R RV-8

Valid Oregon

N526KP is a Payne Steven R RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 17, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Payne Steven R
Model
RV-8
Serial number
81648
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A6A027 (octal 51520047)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 5, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 17, 2007
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00329959

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Payne Steven R
Type
Individual
Address
5208 SE Pine St
Hillsboro, OR 97123-7682

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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 N526KP, 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 Payne Steven R, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2007, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 17, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81648 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N526KP 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N526KP: Accident on July 9, 2021 at Hillsboro, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR21LA276Accident on July 9, 2021 at Hillsboro, OR: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Payne Steven R RV-8 · operated under 091

The second pilot’s diverted attention while taxing which, resulted in his failure to maintain clearance from another airplane holding short of the runway.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA276 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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