Moretti Henry Jr RV8
N81019 is a Moretti Henry Jr RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Moretti Henry Jr
- Model
- RV8
- Serial number
- 81019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1AD · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AB0BF9 (octal 52605771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01132438
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bishop Luke
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4708 Pershing Ave
Fort Worth, TX 76107-4928
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N81019, 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 Bishop Luke, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81019 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-8016098, cancelled October 2, 2003). 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 N81019: Accident on April 14, 2000 at Palo Alto, CA: no injuries, substantial 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons during takeoff climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA154 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