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N1976

Gibson Ralph D RV-8A

Valid Maryland

N1976 is a Gibson Ralph D RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Gibson Ralph D
Model
RV-8A
Serial number
81953
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1B · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2019
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
A18556 (octal 50302526)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 29, 2015
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 22, 2019
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00070219

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gibson Ralph D
Type
Individual
Address
37014 Asher Rd
Mechanicsville, MD 20659-2874

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 2

1997-11-21Boeing 727-23 · exported to Peru · Valid registration
1930-04-30Curtiss JN-4 (CANADIAN) · Valid registration

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