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N8080W

Goicoechea Paul NORTH WING APCHE

Sale reported California

N8080W is a Goicoechea Paul NORTH WING APCHE, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 18, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Goicoechea Paul
Model
NORTH WING APCHE
Serial number
8778
Type
Weight-shift control
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB0202 (octal 52601002)

Registration

Status
Sale reported
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
June 16, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 18, 2008
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00382049

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sale Reported
Type
Individual
Address
5913 Ironwood St
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-1762

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

1993-06-16Piper PA-28-180 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N8080W, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8778 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8080W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 282164, cancelled June 16, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8080W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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