Kumhyr David B VANS RV-8A
N955DK is a Kumhyr David B VANS RV-8A, 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 Wills Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kumhyr David B
- Model
- VANS RV-8A
- Serial number
- 81538
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
- Transponder code
- AD478F (octal 53243617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 22, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00140239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krotje Peter
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 148 Private Road 7010
Wills Point, TX 75169-9467
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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 N955DK, 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 Krotje Peter, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81538 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N955DK 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 N955DK: Accident on September 14, 2022 at Elberta, AL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kumhyr David B VANS RV-8A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain an appropriate descent rate during the landing approach, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent nose over during landing.
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 September 30, 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