Dinkel Dan RV-8
N731DB is a Dinkel Dan RV-8, 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 Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 18, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dinkel Dan
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 82810
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A9CF0F (octal 52347417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 18, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01002176
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dawkins Stephen D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4207 Windsor Parkway
Dallas, TX 75205
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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 2
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The public federal record on N731DB, 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 Dawkins Stephen D, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 18, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82810 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N731DB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Heath James Richard Iii EAGLE II (serial 01, cancelled May 10, 2005); Cessna A188B (serial 18802805T, cancelled March 13, 1997). 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 N731DB: Accident on August 10, 1995 at Town Creek, AL: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 188T · operated under 137
The chafing of the fuel flow gage pressure line with an electrical system wire which resulted in arcing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL95LA151 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data