Bowlds G Drew RV-8
N988DB is a Bowlds G Drew RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gig Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 12, 2014. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bowlds G Drew
- Model
- RV-8
- Serial number
- 83226
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- VANS ACFT INC RV-8F
- Transponder code
- ADC929 (octal 53344451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 12, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01088048
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowlds George D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7802 76Th Ave NW
Gig Harbor, WA 98335-5212
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N988DB, 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 Bowlds George D, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 12, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N988DB according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 18, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N988DB. 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