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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Schumacher Joe P VANS RV-8
N771MM is a Schumacher Joe P VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Taildragger LLC, an LLC in Lakeside, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 2, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schumacher Joe P
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81258
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AA6DDD (octal 52466735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00973894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taildragger LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 120 S 12Th St
Lakeside, OR 97449-9719
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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
Connections how N771MM links to the rest of the register
- Schumacher Joe P 9 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,561 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Taildragger LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Lakeside, OR 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Lakeside Municipal · 9S3
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Muffler, cracked · 2013-02-15
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The public federal record on N771MM, 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 Taildragger LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 2, 2004, 3 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N771MM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 2644, cancelled March 6, 2018). 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 N771MM: Accident on December 29, 2014 at Lake Worth, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA · operated under 091
A main rotor stall due to low rotor rpm, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent into terrain. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data