Thornton J T VANS RV-4
N8081H is a Thornton J T VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dora, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2009 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thornton J T
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 3588
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-H2AD · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- AB0218 (octal 52601030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2009
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 24, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00382109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thornton J T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 114 County Road 196
Dora, MO 65637-7196
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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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8081H, 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 Thornton J T, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2009, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8081H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-8016054, cancelled April 29, 1980); Lockheed 1649A-98 (serial 1026, cancelled September 15, 1969). 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 N8081H. 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