Ruys Nicholas G RV-8
N8EV is a Ruys Nicholas G RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Camden, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ruys Nicholas G
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 80568
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AADDA3 (octal 52556643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 27, 1999
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00823846
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paul Johnny D JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1816 Sailing Club Rd
Camden, SC 29020-7986 - Co-owners
- Paul Janet B
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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 N8EV, 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 Paul Johnny D JR, a co-owned, certificate issued September 28, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80568 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8EV 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]
1 NTSB record under N8EV: Accident on March 28, 2025 at Bennettsville, SC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ruys Nicholas G RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA162 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