Wiggins James C WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8
N282M is a Wiggins James C WITTMAN 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 Lacon, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 1, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wiggins James C
- Model
- WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8
- Serial number
- 652
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2D67C (octal 50553174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 1, 1988
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00394001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccune Charles E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 868 County Rd 1325
Lacon, IL 61540
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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
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The public federal record on N282M, 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 Mccune Charles E, an individual, certificate issued February 5, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 652 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N282M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech D18S (serial A-399, cancelled November 27, 2000); Southern Aircraft Corporation AIR BOSS (serial 10, cancelled date not given). 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 N282M. 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 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