David M Schmitz/Derek C James RV-8
N8782D is a David M Schmitz/Derek C James RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David M Schmitz/Derek C James
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83167
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-B2C · 168 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AC16B0 (octal 53013260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 15, 2014
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01133106
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmitz David M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3911 Oakleigh Meadow Pl
Louisville, KY 40245-8440 - Co-owners
- James Derek C
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8782D, 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 Schmitz David M, a co-owned, certificate issued September 20, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 15, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8782D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18A 150 (serial 18-6311, cancelled August 11, 1965). 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 N8782D. 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