Reid Michael S VANS RV-8A
N808Z is a Reid Michael S VANS RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wilmington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 19, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Reid Michael S
- Model
- VANS RV-8A
- Serial number
- 81471
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- AB01D4 (octal 52600724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 19, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00157361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stephens William C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1181 Arboretum Dr
Wilmington, NC 28405-5240
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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 1
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The public federal record on N808Z, 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 Stephens William C, an individual, certificate issued October 18, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 19, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N808Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C-47D (serial 43-16265, cancelled February 27, 2001). 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 N808Z. 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