Whiteman Marvin E W-3
N339W is a Whiteman Marvin E W-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ararat, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Whiteman Marvin E
- Model
- W-3
- Serial number
- 5657
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- STODDARD HAMILTON W-3
- Transponder code
- A3B932 (octal 50734462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 31, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00655640
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lawson Richard Brandon
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1075 Bryant Mill Rd
Ararat, NC 27007-8067
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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 N339W, 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 Lawson Richard Brandon, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5657 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N339W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Socata TBM 700 (serial 39, cancelled October 21, 1992); Keystone Aircraft K84 COMMUTER (serial 320, cancelled May 13, 1938). 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 N339W: Accident on August 22, 1992 at So. Lake Tahoe, CA: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Tbm, SA TBM 700 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF BOTH PILOTS TO ADEQUATELY ANTICIPATE AND COMPENSATE FOR THE VARIABLE CROSS WIND CONDITION, AND, THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF THE FLIGHT. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LEFT SEAT PILOT'S LIMITED TOTAL EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE IN HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT TYPES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA359 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
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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