Woods Steven W SONEX WAIEX
N209SW is a Woods Steven W SONEX WAIEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Merced, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 4, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Woods Steven W
- Model
- SONEX WAIEX
- Serial number
- W0128
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aeroconver AEROVEE · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC WAIEX
- Transponder code
- A1B517 (octal 50332427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 4, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01081545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rudd William A Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 915 E 22Nd St
Merced, CA 95340-4030
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N209SW, 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 Rudd William A Trustee, an individual, certificate issued November 25, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 4, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial W0128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N209SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120ER (serial 120.269, cancelled January 7, 2005). 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 N209SW. 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