David Weisgerber VANS ACFT INC RV-8
N848DW is a David Weisgerber VANS ACFT INC RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ionia, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David Weisgerber
- Model
- VANS ACFT INC RV-8
- Serial number
- 83830
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320-B1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AB9DF1 (octal 52716761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 23, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01337892
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weisgerber David S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1935 E David Hwy
Ionia, MI 48846-8435
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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 N848DW, 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 Weisgerber David S, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 23, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N848DW 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 N848DW. 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