Gooch Lynn E VANS ACFT INC RV-6
N8102C is a Gooch Lynn E VANS ACFT INC RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anderson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 28, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gooch Lynn E
- Model
- VANS ACFT INC RV-6
- Serial number
- 22711
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AB0BFD (octal 52605775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 28, 1995
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00845352
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fortenbarry David O
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 203 Dean Rd
Anderson, SC 29625-6514
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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
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The public federal record on N8102C, 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 Fortenbarry David O, an individual, certificate issued December 31, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 28, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22711 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8102C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288016100, cancelled February 12, 1991); Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22-2248, cancelled January 5, 1971). 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 N8102C: Accident on July 15, 1990 at Garfield, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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 PILOT'S DECISION TO FLY INTO THE MOUNTAIN PASS AND THE SUBSEQUENT INABILITY TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE GROUND CLEARANCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90FA141 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data