Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1
N8XJ is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milton Freewater, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AADF41 (octal 52557501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 9, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00096861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lefore Nikolas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 84760 Highway 339
Milton Freewater, OR 97862-7936
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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 N8XJ, 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 Lefore Nikolas, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8XJ 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 N8XJ: Accident on August 5, 2005 at Anchorage, AK: 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: Aviat A-1 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the dual student, and his failure to maintain control of the airplane. A factor associated with the accident was the dual student's excessive application of the brakes.
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