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N127RS

Sheffield Ray VANS RV8A

Valid Florida

N127RS is a Sheffield Ray VANS RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 27, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Sheffield Ray
Model
VANS RV8A
Serial number
81559
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
A06F3B (octal 50067473)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 9, 2014
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 27, 2004
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00113319

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Durden Hugh
Type
Individual
Address
414 Ponte Vedra Blvd
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2817

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1996-10-24Mcdonnell Douglas Heli Co 500-E · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data