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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026John M Horn WAIEX
N176WS is a John M Horn WAIEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milan, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- John M Horn
- Model
- WAIEX
- Serial number
- W0176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC WAIEX
- Transponder code
- A1317C (octal 50230574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 9, 2013
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01132236
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lack Christopher K
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5847 e Cr 700 N
Milan, IN 47031
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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 1
Connections how N176WS links to the rest of the register
- John M Horn 1 aircraft on the register
- AeroVee 2180 54 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Milan, IN 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N176WS, 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 Lack Christopher K, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial W0176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N176WS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Learjet Inc 31A (serial 176, cancelled March 24, 2009). 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 N176WS. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data