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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Jerry Bland VANS AIRCRAFT RV-9A
N8239A is a Jerry Bland VANS AIRCRAFT RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lubbock, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 10:22 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jerry Bland
- Model
- VANS AIRCRAFT RV-9A
- Serial number
- 93271
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320-E2A · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- AB3F94 (octal 52637624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 15, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 9, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01520054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bland Jerry D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6210 7Th St
Lubbock, TX 79416-4174
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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
Connections how N8239A links to the rest of the register
- Jerry Bland 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-320-E2A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Lubbock, TX 273 aircraft registered in this town
- Lubbock Preston Smith International · LBB
- Lubbock Executive Airpark · F82
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320-E2A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320-E2A 10 reports since 1995
- Where N8239A is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:22 am.
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The public federal record on N8239A, 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 Bland Jerry D, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 93271 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8239A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 25091, cancelled August 5, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8239A: Accident on August 16, 1990 at Frederick, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170B · operated under 091
FATIGUE FAILURE OF THE LEFT MAIN GEAR WHEEL AXLE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data