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N46BF

Flaherty William E VANS ACFT RV-8

N46BF is a Flaherty William E VANS ACFT RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Irwin, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Flaherty William E
Model
VANS ACFT RV-8
Serial number
80727
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2002
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
A59761 (octal 51313541)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 14, 2000
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 8, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00275720

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flaherty William E
Type
Individual
Address
1718 Pennsylvania Ave
Irwin, PA 15642-3930

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

1997-09-09Douglas C-47 · exported to Mali · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1973-05-30Morane-Saulnier MS894A · exported to Guatemala · Valid registration

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