Paterson Jerry C VAN RV-8
N58AK is a Paterson Jerry C VAN RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kent, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 1, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Paterson Jerry C
- Model
- VAN RV-8
- Serial number
- 80479
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A77399 (octal 51671631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 1, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00175199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paterson Jerry C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17656 SE 299Th Pl
Kent, WA 98042-9456
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N58AK, 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 Paterson Jerry C, an individual, certificate issued May 10, 2005, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 1, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80479 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N58AK according to the deregistered file. [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 N58AK: Accident on February 6, 1999 at Gaylord, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 58 · operated under 091
the pilot not obtaining proper runway centerline alignment during landing. Associated factors were the pilot's obscured view through the iced windshield, the runway lights not activating simultaneously with the approach lights, incomplete visual detection of the runway environment and no notice to airmen of the reduced reception of the runway light receiver.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA086 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