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N8171

Knox Robert VANS RV-8

Valid Colorado

N8171 is a Knox Robert VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Thaven Aviation LLC, an LLC in Edwards, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Knox Robert
Model
VANS RV-8
Serial number
81320
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B · 200 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
Transponder code
AB25D8 (octal 52622730)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 10, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 12, 2013
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00214319

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thaven Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 2746
Edwards, CO 81632-2746

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

1971-02-01Loomiss Open Air 1 · Valid registration

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