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N84ME

Pofahl Steven R RV-8A

N84ME is a Pofahl Steven R RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brookings, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Pofahl Steven R
Model
RV-8A
Serial number
80752
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
AB7E98 (octal 52677230)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 2, 2015
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 9, 2015
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01170434

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pofahl Steven R
Type
Individual
Address
1130 Indian Hills Rd
Brookings, SD 57006-3658

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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 2

2010-06-24Deer Bill TR-1C · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1995-06-08Ediger William M LONG EZ/II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N84ME, 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 Pofahl Steven R, an individual, certificate issued February 2, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80752 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N84ME was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Deer Bill TR-1C (serial 103, cancelled June 24, 2010); Ediger William M LONG EZ/II (serial 1662, cancelled June 8, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N84ME. 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