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N898DB

Brand Donald A VANS RV-8

N898DB is a Brand Donald A VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Redding, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Brand Donald A
Model
VANS RV-8
Serial number
80448
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC6359 (octal 53061531)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 17, 1998
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00797161

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Brand Donald A
Type
Individual
Address
9087 Madrone Way
Redding, CA 96002-9332

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.

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