Merian Richard F RV-8
N8JL is a Merian Richard F RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in St Simons Is, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Merian Richard F
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 81324
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AADDFE (octal 52556776)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 20, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00643775
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morris Jerry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 306 Wymberly Rd
St Simons Is, GA 31522-1708
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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 N8JL, 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 Morris Jerry L, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 2006, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8JL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Long James L Iii ROTORWAY EXEC (serial 3360, cancelled August 14, 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 N8JL: Accident on March 29, 2015 at Tuscaloosa, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Merian Richard F RV 8 · operated under 091
The RV-8 pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance from the RV-6 while maneuvering during an air show, which resulted in a midair collision.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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