Bufkin C W GLASTAR
N8118D is a Bufkin C W GLASTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Linda, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bufkin C W
- Model
- GLASTAR
- Serial number
- 5862
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AB1087 (octal 52610207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00243199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Silas W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 252
Rio Linda, CA 95673-0252
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8118D, 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 Thomas Silas W, an individual, certificate issued October 28, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5862 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8118D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 225609, cancelled March 5, 1997). 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 N8118D. 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