Joe Dory Jr VANS RV-8
N644DC is a Joe Dory Jr VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morgan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Joe Dory Jr
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 80790
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A87465 (octal 52072145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 29, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00545640
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Compton John Douglas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4217 Iris Ave
Morgan, UT 84050-9738
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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
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The public federal record on N644DC, 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 Compton John Douglas, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80790 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N644DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0144, cancelled September 10, 2014). 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 N644DC: Accident on September 11, 2008 at Stevensville, MD: 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: Diamond Aircraft Industry Inc DA 20-C1 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
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