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N948RV

Helms Robert C RV-8

Valid Texas

N948RV is a Helms Robert C RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Helms Robert C
Model
RV-8
Serial number
82021
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
AD2C6B (octal 53226153)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2011
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 9, 2012
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00138589

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Geer Roy R
Type
Individual
Address
612 Aviator Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76179-5417

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N948RV, 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 Geer Roy R, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2012, 8 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N948RV according to the deregistered file. [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 N948RV. 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