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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Sunrise Aviation Inc RV-8A
N911PZ is a Sunrise Aviation Inc RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sunrise Aviation Inc
- Model
- RV-8A
- Serial number
- 80986
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- AC9BBF (octal 53115677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 10, 2006
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00216359
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brannan Raymond e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 402 Brookhollow St
Decatur, TX 76234-4229
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N911PZ links to the rest of the register
- Sunrise Aviation Inc 4 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 141 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Decatur, TX 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Bishop Airport · 76T
- Decatur Municipal · LUD
- Heritage Creek Airstrip Airport · 58T
- Lazy G Bar Ranch Airport · 09T
- 1 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 192 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N911PZ.json.
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The public federal record on N911PZ, 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 Brannan Raymond e, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80986 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N911PZ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N911PZ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data