Aerotrike COBRA
N8078V is an Aerotrike COBRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crestone, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 21, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotrike
- Model
- COBRA
- Serial number
- 048
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AAFF62 (octal 52577542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 21, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00382039
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Corwin E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1202 Hilltop Way Unit 531
Crestone, CO 81131
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8078V, 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 Bell Corwin E, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 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 048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8078V was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120 (serial 120242, cancelled July 22, 2004); Bell 206B (serial 4332, cancelled May 4, 1995); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288090074, cancelled February 12, 1991). 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 N8078V: Accident on May 9, 1989 at Dublin, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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-28-181 · operated under 091
THE PILOT DECIDED TO CONTINUE VFR FLIGHT AFTER ENCOUNTERING INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN AN AREA OF RISING MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. FACTORS IN THIS ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOTS LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND HIS FAILURE TO OBTAIN A PREFLIGHT WEATHER BRIEFING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA189 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