U T V A 66(V-51)
N8081U is an U T V A 66(V-51), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ferriday, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- U T V A
- Model
- 66(V-51) · all 66(V-51)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0868
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GSO&IGSO-480 · 340 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Transponder code
- AB0223 (octal 52601043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 17, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00213637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellett Cathy M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 476 Maxwell Rd
Ferriday, LA 71334-4475 - Co-owners
- Ellett Thomas S
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 N8081U, 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 Ellett Cathy M, a co-owned, certificate issued June 17, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 19, 1999, 25 years after the 1974 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 0868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8081U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206-L4 (serial 52126, cancelled January 17, 1996). 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 N8081U: Incident on January 24, 1984 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor 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: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-61 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84IA093 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