Whittman Tailwind W-8
N117A is a Whittman Tailwind W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Malone, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 4, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Whittman Tailwind
- Model
- W-8 · all W-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A04634 (octal 50043064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 4, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00961220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hjelle Tim D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- N9497 Hiway 151
Malone, WI 53049
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N117A, 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 Hjelle Tim D, an individual, certificate issued November 27, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 1980, 15 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N117A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 749A-79 (serial 2614, cancelled April 9, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N117A. 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 August 27, 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