Wells P/Sands T JW 1
N243SW is a Wells P/Sands T JW 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whitefish, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 1, 2003. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wells P/Sands T
- Model
- JW 1
- Serial number
- 001SW
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- MONTANA AIRCRAFT MARKETING MONTANA COYOTE
- Transponder code
- A23CC9 (octal 50436311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 1, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00105832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Paul L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 479 Armory Rd
Whitefish, MT 59937-8143
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 2
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The public federal record on N243SW, 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 Wells Paul L, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2006, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 1, 2003, 4 years after the 1999 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001SW for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N243SW according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N243SW. 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