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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Dombroski 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dombroski
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83292
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AA689B (octal 52464233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2024
- 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 · June 11, 2020
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01314235
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rutz Jack T
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N77VT links to the rest of the register
- Dombroski 3 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360-M1B 185 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Colchester, VT 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Vermont 676 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-M1B 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-M1B 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N77VT.json.
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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]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW-15 · operated under 091
An inadvertent aerodynamic stall during the approach for landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data