Howard Harold D RV-8
N842W is a Howard Harold D RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Split Oak Contracting INC, a corporation in Williamson, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Harold D
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 80813
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AB893B (octal 52704473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 6, 2018
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00273887
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Split Oak Contracting INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 321 Split Oak Trl
Williamson, GA 30292-3241
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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
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The public federal record on N842W, 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 Split Oak Contracting INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 17, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 2018, 17 years after the 2001 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 80813 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N842W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: F Stewart Roosa Jr ROOSA FSR-1 (serial A-001, cancelled January 11, 1933). 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 N842W. 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