Daubert Gary D VANS RV-8
N97MM is a Daubert Gary D VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Daubert Gary D
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 81389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B1B · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AD826B (octal 53301153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 29, 2006
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00263249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N97MM, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97MM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-20 (serial 20-41, cancelled November 14, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N97MM: Accident on December 6, 1985 at Shageluk, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 24, 1983 at Anchorage, AK: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
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
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