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N8JA

Austin James H AVID HEAVY HAULER

N8JA is an Austin James H AVID HEAVY HAULER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in York, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 4, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Austin James H
Model
AVID HEAVY HAULER
Serial number
648
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1990
Transponder code
AADDF4 (octal 52556764)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 10, 2009
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 4, 1990
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00735021

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Furst Paul E
Type
Individual
Address
1277 W Poplar St
York, PA 17404-3444

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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

—Abbaticchio John E STEEN SKYBOLT · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8JA, 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 Furst Paul E, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 4, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 648 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Abbaticchio John E STEEN SKYBOLT (serial 1, cancelled date not given). 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 N8JA. 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