{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-07-02","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-04-14","city":"CANYON LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"091","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41710","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"YIO-360 EXP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8","last_action_date":"2025-04-14","maker":"Ingersoll Guy K","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"INGERSOLL GUY K","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056422I","mode_s_code":"50255263","mode_s_hex":"A15AB3","model":"VANS RV-8 STANDARD","n_number":"N187AF","name":"INGERSOLL GUY K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Cerrillos","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-06-10","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DEN01FA113","probable_cause":"the pilot's loss of aircraft control inflight for reasons undetermined. Contributing factors were the pilot's inadequate transition/upgrade training and his total lack of experience in aircraft make/model.","registration":"N187AF","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on June 10, 2001 at Cerrillos, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N187AF is an Ingersoll Guy K VANS RV-8 STANDARD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canyon Lake, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 2, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ingersoll Guy K, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 2, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 84182 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N187AF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-20 (serial 187, cancelled June 4, 2003). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N187AF: Accident on June 10, 2001 at Cerrillos, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"84182","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1010 BLUE WATER DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01487036","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N187AF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2026,"zip":"781335584"}