Dombroski VANS RV-8
N77VT is a Dombroski VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colchester, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 11, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dombroski
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83292
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AA689B (octal 52464233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 11, 2020
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01314235
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rutz Jack T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 321 Crooked Creek Rd
Colchester, VT 05446-7575
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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 N77VT, 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 Rutz Jack T, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 11, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83292 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77VT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schleicher ASW-15 (serial 15032, cancelled July 29, 2013). 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 N77VT: Accident on June 22, 2013 at Navasota, TX: serious 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: Schleicher ASW-15 · operated under 091
An inadvertent aerodynamic stall during the approach for landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13LA369 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