Mcneely Gene VANS RV-8
N998GM is a Mcneely Gene VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mcaviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2007 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 5, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcneely Gene
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 82254
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-A1D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- ADF0FD (octal 53370375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2007
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 5, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00438219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcaviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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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 N998GM, 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 Mcaviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 20, 2007, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 5, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82254 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N998GM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N998GM. 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 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