{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-10-13","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-24","city":"DEER PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42167","engine_horsepower":330,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-EXP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","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":"2025-09-24","maker":"Kevin Eldredge","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KEVIN ELDREDGE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643EL","mode_s_code":"51555534","mode_s_hex":"A6DB5C","model":"RV8","n_number":"N5408","name":"ELDREDGE KEVIN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"VERNALIS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-02-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA131","probable_cause":"THE OPERATOR'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY COMPLY WITH AN AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE AFFECTING THE SECOND-STAGE TURBINE WHEEL ASSEMBLY.  CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE UNCONTAINED FAILURE OF THE SECOND-STAGE TURBINE WHEEL AND THE ROUGH/UNEVEN TERRAIN.","registration":"N5408","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 29, 1992 at Vernalis, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5408 is a Kevin Eldredge RV8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Deer Park, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 13, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Eldredge Kevin, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83271 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5408 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 981, cancelled June 25, 2007); Stinson SM1-B (serial M-235, cancelled February 21, 1929). 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 N5408: Accident on February 29, 1992 at Vernalis, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"83271","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1109 N CEDAR RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01494914","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5408","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"990069158"}