Kevin Eldredge RV8
N5408 is a Kevin Eldredge RV8, 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 Deer Park, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 13, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kevin Eldredge
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 83271
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-EXP · 330 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A6DB5C (octal 51555534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 13, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01494914
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eldredge Kevin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1109 N Cedar Rd
Deer Park, WA 99006-9158
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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 2
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The public federal record on N5408, 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 Eldredge Kevin, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83271 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5408 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 981, cancelled June 25, 2007); Stinson SM1-B (serial M-235, cancelled February 21, 1929). 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 N5408: Accident on February 29, 1992 at Vernalis, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
THE OPERATOR'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY COMPLY WITH AN AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE AFFECTING THE SECOND-STAGE TURBINE WHEEL ASSEMBLY. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE UNCONTAINED FAILURE OF THE SECOND-STAGE TURBINE WHEEL AND THE ROUGH/UNEVEN TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA131 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data