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N8166N

Thornton Ernest L RAF2000

N8166N is a Thornton Ernest L RAF2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grove City, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Thornton Ernest L
Model
RAF2000
Serial number
H2-98-9-387
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1999
Kit
ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF-2000
Transponder code
AB22DD (octal 52621335)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 31, 2000
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00143826

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nadig James E
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 724
Grove City, PA 16127-0724

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

1969-04-04Piper PA-28-140 · exported to Germany · Valid registration

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