Varga Aircraft Corp 2180
N8463J is a Varga Aircraft Corp 2180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mission Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Friendswood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 16, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Varga Aircraft Corp
- Model
- 2180 · all 2180s and related versions
- Serial number
- VAC 174 81
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AB98ED (octal 52714355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 16, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00162951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mission Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 327 Northcliff Ridge Ln
Friendswood, TX 77546-1727
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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 N8463J, 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 Mission Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 26, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 16, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VAC 174 81 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8463J 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 N8463J. 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