Thornton Ernest L RAF2000
N8166N is a Thornton Ernest L RAF2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grove City, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thornton Ernest L
- Model
- RAF2000
- Serial number
- H2-98-9-387
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF-2000
- Transponder code
- AB22DD (octal 52621335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00143826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nadig James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 724
Grove City, PA 16127-0724
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8166N, 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 Nadig James E, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2000, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H2-98-9-387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8166N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-25362, cancelled April 4, 1969). 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 N8166N. 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