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N819RB

Richard K Brown VANS ACFT INC RV-8

N819RB is a Richard K Brown VANS ACFT INC RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 27, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Richard K Brown
Model
VANS ACFT INC RV-8
Serial number
83886
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360 EXP · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2024
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
AB2C44 (octal 52626104)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 31, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
January 31, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 27, 2024
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01384597

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Brown Richard K
Type
Co-owned
Address
7 Smilin Jack Ln
East Falmouth, MA 02536-8511
Co-owners
Brown Meryl M

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N819RB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Brown Richard K, a co-owned, certificate issued January 31, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 27, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83886 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N819RB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N819RB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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