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N7434

Sowder Donald M RV8A

Valid Maryland

N7434 is a Sowder Donald M RV8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Annapolis, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 19, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Sowder Donald M
Model
RV8A
Serial number
80545
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
AA0093 (octal 52400223)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 30, 2014
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 19, 2000
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00783563

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Armstrong Charles R
Type
Individual
Address
2052 Quaker Way Unit 11
Annapolis, MD 21401-5334

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

1968-08-08Vickers VISCOUNT 745-D · Valid registration

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