Glines Kenneth TAILWIND W-8
N1983T is a Glines Kenneth TAILWIND W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Smyrna, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glines Kenneth
- Model
- TAILWIND W-8
- Serial number
- 306
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A188B6 (octal 50304266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00123301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boatman John H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 112 Glen Echo Dr
Smyrna, TN 37167-4902
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1983T, 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 Boatman John H JR, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 306 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1983T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-7140074, cancelled October 26, 1971). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1983T: Accident on January 25, 2016 at Big Bear, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Glines Kenneth TAILWIND W 8 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent landing off the left side of the snow-covered runway, resulting in a ground loop and nose over.
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
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