Rubin Alan RV-8
N80AR is a Rubin Alan RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boulder City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rubin Alan
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83093
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerosport IO-375M1S · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AADF94 (octal 52557624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01197129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Palmer Thomas W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 894 Moonstone Dr
Boulder City, NV 89005-1209
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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 N80AR, 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 Palmer Thomas W, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80AR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Scheibe SF 27 M (serial 6321, cancelled March 15, 1989). 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 N80AR: Accident on February 28, 2026 at Hurricane, UT: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Vans Aircraft RV-8 · operated under 091
On February 28, 2026, at about 1005 mountain standard time, an experimental amateur-built, Vans Aircraft, RV-8, N80AR, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Hurricane, Utah. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Pilot rated witnesses reported that the pilot was participating in a formation flying event, which was staged out of Saint George Regional Airport (SGU), Saint George, Utah. During the accident flight, the accident airplane was number two position of a flight of five. The …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26FA108 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