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N333HL

Lafleur Hal A WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8

N333HL is a Lafleur Hal A WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Duvall, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Lafleur Hal A
Model
WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8
Serial number
286
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1982
Transponder code
A3A1AE (octal 50720656)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 9, 2015
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 29, 1982
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00262173

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Norman Monroe E
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1423
Duvall, WA 98019-1423

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N333HL, 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 Norman Monroe E, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N333HL according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N333HL: Accident on August 7, 1988 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX88DVM03Accident on August 7, 1988 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Wittman TAILWIND W-8 · operated under 091

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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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data