Ralph Trapaga VANS RV-8
N798RM is a Ralph Trapaga VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fayetteville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ralph Trapaga
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerosport IO-375 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AAD740 (octal 52553500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 23, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01070366
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trapaga Ralph P
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 165 Turnberry Cir
Fayetteville, GA 30215-2757 - Co-owners
- Trapaga Maureen L
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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 N798RM, 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 Trapaga Ralph P, a co-owned, certificate issued June 11, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N798RM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7798, cancelled April 21, 2017). 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 N798RM. 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