Williams Glenn RV-8A
N81GW is a Williams Glenn RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spring Branch, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Williams Glenn
- Model
- RV-8A
- Serial number
- 80917
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- AB07AE (octal 52603656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 12, 2010
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00893533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wolfe Ian Sean
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 290 Stealth Dr
Spring Branch, TX 78070-6101
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N81GW, 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 Wolfe Ian Sean, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80917 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81GW according to the deregistered file. [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 N81GW: Accident on November 10, 2014 at San Antonio, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Williams Glenn RV 8A · operated under 091
Unintentional collision with a deer at night.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15CA086 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