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N848RV

Bierly Donald R RV-8A

N848RV is a Bierly Donald R RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built; exhibition, dated September 6, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Bierly Donald R
Model
RV-8A
Serial number
80604
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2002
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
AB9F1C (octal 52717434)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built; Exhibition · September 6, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00545940

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Getz Christopher M
Type
Co-owned
Address
3482 Creekside Ct
Hellertown, PA 18055-1559
Co-owners
Getz Jeremy E

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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 N848RV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Getz Christopher M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 31, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; exhibition, dated September 6, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N848RV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N848RV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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