William M Clapp CLAPP-SABERWING
N120SW is a William M Clapp CLAPP-SABERWING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valdosta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 22, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William M Clapp
- Model
- CLAPP-SABERWING
- Serial number
- CLAPP04
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A05557 (octal 50052527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 22, 2014
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01162944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clapp William M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3913 Rowell Rd
Valdosta, GA 31606-0631
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N120SW, 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 Clapp William M, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 22, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CLAPP04 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N120SW 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]
1 NTSB record under N120SW: Accident on June 11, 2024 at Valdosta, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Clapp Saberwing · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to the shearing of the woodruff key that indexed the crankshaft gear and hub assembly to the crankshaft, which resulted in the gear and hub rotating from their indexed position and caused the crankshaft-to-camshaft timing to become misaligned.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data