James G Whitlock VANS RV-8
N949JW is a James G Whitlock VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2019. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- James G Whitlock
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 83405
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-360-M1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AD2F74 (octal 53227564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 30, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01287380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitlock James G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9569 SE 72Nd Ave
Ocala, FL 34472-9200
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N949JW, 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 Whitlock James G, an individual, certificate issued December 6, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2019, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N949JW according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N949JW. 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 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