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N258N

Inland/Nelson INLAND SPORT

Valid Delaware

N258N is an Inland/Nelson INLAND SPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wingnut INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Inland/Nelson
Model
INLAND SPORT
Serial number
W-518
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SCARAB SERIES · 125 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1930
Transponder code
A27662 (octal 50473142)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 13, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 8, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 2, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00731485

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wingnut INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247

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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

1958-04-11Piper J3C-65 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
—Inland W500 · B

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N258N, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wingnut INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 13, 2002, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 2, 2003, 73 years after the 1930 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial W-518 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N258N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 22449, cancelled April 11, 1958); Inland W500 (serial W518, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N258N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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