James J Patchett VANS RV8
N861JP is a James J Patchett VANS RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chapmansboro, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James J Patchett
- Model
- VANS RV8
- Serial number
- 83881
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- ABD364 (octal 52751544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 7, 2024
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01440997
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patchett James J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 125 Windsock Way
Chapmansboro, TN 37035-3003
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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 N861JP, 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 Patchett James J, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 7, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83881 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N861JP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Reims CESSNA FR172H (serial 0336, cancelled June 29, 2005). 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 N861JP. 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