High Flight Aviation Inc KERNS-VANS RV-8
N788RV is a High Flight Aviation Inc KERNS-VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to High Flight Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- High Flight Aviation Inc
- Model
- KERNS-VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 82297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AAAFC9 (octal 52527711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 22, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00396529
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Flight Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N788RV, 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 High Flight Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 17, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N788RV according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N788RV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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