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N38LB

Benson/Lechner RV-8 FAST BACK

Valid Colorado

N38LB is a Benson/Lechner RV-8 FAST BACK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Avon, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Benson/Lechner
Model
RV-8 FAST BACK
Serial number
82682
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B2E · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A459ED (octal 51054755)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 25, 2008
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2008
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00452909

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Benson James
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 327
Avon, CO 81620-0327

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

1991-07-19Brown Louis A SONERAI · N-number assigned as a non-type-certificated aircraft, not yet registered

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