Carter Franklin M Iii RV-8
N88FC is a Carter Franklin M Iii RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC, a corporation in Bennington, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Carter Franklin M Iii
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 80061
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AC1BFC (octal 53015774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 5, 1998
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00867011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 93 Pace Rd
Bennington, VT 05201-8755
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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 N88FC, 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 Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 13, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88FC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-A55 (serial TC395, cancelled January 16, 1996). 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]
1 NTSB record under N88FC: Accident on August 20, 1994 at Page, AZ: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 95-B55 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES TO ASSURE THAT THE LANDING GEAR WAS EXTENDED. HIS DIVERTED ATTENTION DUE TO THE PREVIOUS TWO GO-AROUNDS IS A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA330 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data