{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1998-07-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-03","city":"MIDLOTHIAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41504","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-360-A1D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-03","maker":"Oveross James A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"OVEROSS JAMES A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05606EB","mode_s_code":"53371026","mode_s_hex":"ADF216","model":"VANS RV-8","n_number":"N998TT","name":"HUNTON HUGH R II","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"INDEPENDENCE","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-05-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA00LA084","probable_cause":"The rotation of the right fuel tank elbow fitting within the tank during previous maintenance.  The improper alignment resulted in the fuel pick-up tube being mis-positioned and a subsequent starvation of fuel to the engine.  Contributing factors were the non-installation of an anti-rotation bracket to secure the elbow fitting, the kit manufacturer's failure to issue a notice of the bracket design to previous aircraft owners, and the pilot's not establishing/maintaining a proper rate of descent resulting in a hard landing.","registration":"N998TT","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on May 7, 2000 at Independence, OR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"ELY WILLIAM","plain_english":"N998TT is an Oveross James A VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Hunton Hugh R II, a partnership in Midlothian, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hunton Hugh R II, a partnership, certificate issued February 3, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80326 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N998TT 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":"1 NTSB record under N998TT: Accident on May 7, 2000 at Independence, OR: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":2,"serial_number":"80326","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2710 EAGLES NEST CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00027261","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N998TT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"760654701"}