Merlin Aircraft Inc RV8
N78SG is a Merlin Aircraft Inc RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Merlin Aircraft INC, a corporation in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Merlin Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 82098
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AA8FC4 (octal 52507704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 13, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01067807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merlin Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3210 N Wickham Rd Ste 5
Melbourne, FL 32935-2300
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78SG, 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 Merlin Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 13, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78SG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11264, cancelled January 3, 2008). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78SG. 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