Root David F AIR CAM
N8120W is a Root David F AIR CAM, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grapevine, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 20, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Root David F
- Model
- AIR CAM
- Serial number
- AC045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6S
- Transponder code
- AB1337 (octal 52611467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 20, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00573687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Root David F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2432 Lakeshore Dr
Grapevine, TX 76051-4556
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 N8120W, 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 Root David F, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 1999, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 20, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8120W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-7-102 (serial 50, cancelled May 4, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8120W. 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