Avcat Airframes AVCAT
N8026W is an Avcat Airframes AVCAT, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rogers, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Avcat Airframes
- Model
- AVCAT
- Serial number
- 898427
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Hirth 3202 · 270 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AAEC8A (octal 52566212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00386029
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowden Earl E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 913 S 28Th St
Rogers, AR 72758-4817
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8026W, 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 Bowden Earl E, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 898427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8026W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 282092, cancelled November 29, 1993). 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 N8026W: Accident on March 2, 1991 at Genesee, MI: no 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
POSITIVE LIFTOFF AIRSPEED WAS NOT ATTAINED, AN ABORTED TAKEOFF WAS NOT PERFORMED WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL/MUSH DESCENT TO THE TERRAIN. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE A DARK RAINING NIGHT, SOFT, WET GRASS RUNWAY AND A DOWNWIND SURFACE WIND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA104 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
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