Hostetler BD-8
N88DH is a Hostetler BD-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 12, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hostetler
- Model
- BD-8
- Serial number
- 2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1BCF (octal 53015717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 12, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00342021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hayes Dennis P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4517 75Th St
Des Moines, IA 50322-1131
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N88DH, 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 Hayes Dennis P, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 1980, 6 years after the 1974 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88DH according to the deregistered file. [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 N88DH. 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