Reddick Jonathan L RV8
N803DR is a Reddick Jonathan L RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bayou Vista, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 2019. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Reddick Jonathan L
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 82497
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B1E · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AAED5D (octal 52566535)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 15, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01285089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1256 Sailfish St
Bayou Vista, TX 77563-2715
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N803DR, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N803DR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Roebuck David L S-10 SAKOTA (serial 0297180, cancelled August 1, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N803DR: Accident on November 22, 1997 at Columbia, SC: 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: Roebuck RANS S-10 SAKOTA · operated under 091
the airplane builder's improper routing of vinyl/plastic cooling/vent line(s) for the engine oil system, and improper materials supplied by the manufacturer, which led to overheating of the line(s) in the engine compartment and an in-flight fire.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98LA012 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