Lutz Terry L RV-8
N8TL is a Lutz Terry L RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamston, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2002 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 10, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lutz Terry L
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 80462
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AADEDF (octal 52557337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2002
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 10, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00893966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lutz Terry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6055 Lounsbury Rd
Williamston, MI 48895-9482
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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 N8TL, 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 Lutz Terry L, an individual, certificate issued April 10, 2002, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 10, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80462 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8TL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50235, cancelled November 22, 1999). 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 N8TL: Accident on August 5, 1999 at Kenai, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 180A · operated under 091
The pilot's intentional visual flight into known adverse weather. Factors associated with this accident were the reported low ceilings, obscuration, high winds, and turbulence.
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 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