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N81081

Penny Barton W RV-8A

N81081 is a Penny Barton W RV-8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cypress, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 21, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Penny Barton W
Model
RV-8A
Serial number
81081
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A2A · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8A
Transponder code
AB0CE6 (octal 52606346)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 2020
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 21, 2009
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00461439

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lytle Brent J
Type
Individual
Address
9977 Graham St
Cypress, CA 90630-3814

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 3

2002-02-21Flaherty W/Morcheid L RV-6 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1988-02-19Piper PA-34-200T · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1973-01-04Cessna 140 · Valid registration

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