Massey Richard L TAILWIND W8
N102DM is a Massey Richard L TAILWIND W8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valley View, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Massey Richard L
- Model
- TAILWIND W8
- Serial number
- 97
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A00C79 (octal 50006171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 22, 1983
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00142572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chisum Brian J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 168 County Road 2007
Valley View, TX 76272-3500
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N102DM, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Chisum Brian J, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 97 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N102DM according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N102DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data