Halpern Stephen WEDELL WILLIAMS
N161Y is a Halpern Stephen WEDELL WILLIAMS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wedell Williams Memorial Foundation INC, a corporation in Patterson, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 24, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Halpern Stephen
- Model
- WEDELL WILLIAMS
- Serial number
- 1177
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0F78B (octal 50173613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 24, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00274961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wedell Williams Memorial Foundation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 38
Patterson, LA 70392-0038
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N161Y, 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 Wedell Williams Memorial Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 16, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Drum Burnell N PITTS S1-C (serial 80, cancelled June 11, 1975); Bell 47G-2 (serial 2427, cancelled November 17, 1966). 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 N161Y. 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