Westerman B-8M
N28WA is a Westerman B-8M, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2005 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Westerman
- Model
- B-8M
- Serial number
- B8M-03-W
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Mcculloch 4318A&E/0-100 · 72 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A2CD97 (octal 50546627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2005
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00890253
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Long Earl V III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2558 S Kessler St
Wichita, KS 67217-1045
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N28WA, 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 Long Earl V III, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2005, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B8M-03-W for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28WA according to the deregistered file. [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 N28WA. 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