Northwing Design APACHE SPORT
N3283N is a Northwing Design APACHE SPORT, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 27, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northwing Design
- Model
- APACHE SPORT
- Serial number
- 6199
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503DC · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A38ED6 (octal 50707326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 27, 2009
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00259179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Budd Kenneth
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 317 E Fulton St
Lancaster, PA 17602-2706
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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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3283N, 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 Budd Kenneth, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 27, 2009, 4 years after the 2005 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 6199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3283N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-3 (serial 22483, cancelled April 25, 1972). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3283N: Accident on September 21, 2022 at Southern Shores, NC: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Northwing Design APACHE SPORT · operated under 091
A loss of aircraft control due to movement of the outer portion of the right wing fabric and displacement of wing ribs for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA427 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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