Hendricks George David Jr RV8
N678VR is a Hendricks George David Jr RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Weatherford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 12, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hendricks George David Jr
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 82700
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A8FB5B (octal 52175533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00442109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blair Geary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 136 Blairport Ln
Weatherford, TX 76087-6667
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N678VR, 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 Blair Geary L, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 12, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82700 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N678VR 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 N678VR: Accident on June 24, 2011 at Angel Fire, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hendricks George David JR RV8 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during landing.
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 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