Dale Snodgrass VANS RV-8
N717CS is a Dale Snodgrass VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to 717 Aviation INC, a corporation in Alto, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 30, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dale Snodgrass
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 82206
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A99651 (octal 52313121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 30, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01289156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 717 Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 879
Alto, NM 88312-0879
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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 N717CS, 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 717 Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 31, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 30, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N717CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stewart Rocky 162F (serial CS001, cancelled November 29, 2012). 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 N717CS: Accident on June 16, 2004 at Hood River, OR: 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: Steward Rocky 162F · operated under 091
The pilot's miscalculation of fuel consumption and his inadequate in-flight planning/decision, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and loss of engine power. A factor was the high vegetation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04CA107 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