{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-26","city":"GRAPEVINE","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8A","last_action_date":"2026-06-26","maker":"Dalski David W","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DALSKI DAVID W","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05612OS","mode_s_code":"52733177","mode_s_hex":"ABB67F","model":"VANS ACFT RV8A","n_number":"N854D","name":"WILD BLUE AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N854D is a Dalski David W VANS ACFT RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wild Blue Aviation LLC, an LLC in Grapevine, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wild Blue Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 26, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81100 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N854D according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N854D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"81100","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"326 PARK HILL LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00024077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N854D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"760511126"}