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N98TM

Keithley Richard S RV-8

N98TM is a Keithley Richard S RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brentwood, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2000 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 24, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Keithley Richard S
Model
RV-8
Serial number
80894
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
ADAA80 (octal 53325200)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 13, 2000
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 24, 2000
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00225840

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Keithley Richard S
Type
Individual
Address
585 Garland Way
Brentwood, CA 94513-2605

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N98TM, 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 Keithley Richard S, an individual, certificate issued June 13, 2000, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80894 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N98TM 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 N98TM. 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