- Registered owner
- Padre Company LLC
- Location
- Tulsa, OK
- Owner type
- LLC
- Serial number
- 81168
- Year built
- 2002
- Type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Engine
- Reciprocating
- Airworthiness
- Experimental, amateur built
- Airworthiness date
- July 21, 2003
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Mode S code
- A58439
- Kit
- Vans Aircraft Inc RV-8
From the FAA registry file of October 24, 2026.
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Airworthiness directives that may apply · 0
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Information bulletins that may apply
Advisory, not mandatory.
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NTSB investigations · 1
Matched to this aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model.
FAA incident reports · 3
FAA accident and incident reports matched to this aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model.
Accident 20110622011699ALanding: Touchdown · Sheridan, WYOn June 22, 2011 at approximately 1730 LCL N4546Y, a vans RV-8, sustained substantial damage upon landing at Sheridan, WY. The pilot and one (1) passenger received no injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time. The flight was being…Incident 20061005024779IRoll-Out (Fixed Wing) · Tulsa, OK(-23) On October 5, 2006, a vans (experimental) RV-8, N4546Y, lost directional control while landing on runway 1 right at the Richard Jones-Tulsa riverside airport, jenks, OK. The aircraft received minor damage; the commercial rated pilot and passenger was…Incident 20040308003479IRoll-Out (Fixed Wing) · Tulsa, OK(-23) After landing and turning right on the taxiway the aircraft made a ground loop of more than 360 degrees when the brakes were applied. The skid marks showed both main landing gear tires were skidding for about 60 feet during the turn off the runway onto…
Service difficulty reports
No reports matched to N4546YGeneral aviation reporting is voluntary. Matched to this aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model. Reports on Inhofe James M / Davis Jim VANS RV-8 aircraft
STCs that may be installed
No STCs matched this aircraft’s modelsSTCs change type-certificated designs, and this aircraft isn’t type certificated.
Earlier aircraft with this N-number · 1
This aircraft carried N4546Y before the one registered now. The FAA can assign a mark to another aircraft once a registration is cancelled.