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N8868X

Rink John TITAN TORNADO II

N8868X is a Rink John TITAN TORNADO II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Rink John
Model
TITAN TORNADO II
Serial number
DO3912S0HK0443
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
TITAN AIRCRAFT TORNADO II
Transponder code
AC37A5 (octal 53033645)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 9, 2014
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 26, 2004
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00101119

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rink John L
Type
Individual
Address
1741 Mason St # C
San Francisco, CA 94133-2718

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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

1976-11-17Cessna 182D · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8868X, 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 Rink John L, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DO3912S0HK0443 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8868X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182D (serial 18253268, cancelled November 17, 1976). 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 N8868X. 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