Turpen Kenneth P RV-8
N61FS is a Turpen Kenneth P RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge Island, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Turpen Kenneth P
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83145
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerosport IO-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A7ECF3 (octal 51766363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 23, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01147131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turpen Kenneth P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3750 Crystal Springs Dr NE
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2075
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N61FS, 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 Turpen Kenneth P, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61FS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Turpen Kenneth P RV-8 (serial 82448, cancelled December 8, 2011). 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 N61FS: Accident on October 5, 2009 at Yankton, OR: serious 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: Turpen RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate planning during an instrument approach and failure to maintain the published minimum altitudes, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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