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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150A
N8294J is a Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucker, Georgia. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued March 20, 2003). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 29, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Varga Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- 2150A · all 2150As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- VAC-140-79
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5537 (octal 52652467)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2003
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00763481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Downing John T
- 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
- 1052 Gunners Walk
Tucker, GA 30084-1439
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8294J links to the rest of the register
- Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150 86 registered
- Varga Aircraft Corp. 86 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Tucker, GA 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,803 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150 1 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8294J, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 2003, 24 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VAC-140-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8294J 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8294J. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data