Wielt-Smith MINIPLANE
N41W is a Wielt-Smith MINIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Overland Park, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wielt-Smith
- Model
- MINIPLANE
- Serial number
- 1BW
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A4D3BB (octal 51151673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 31, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00861354
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bendure Mark
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8025 Hemlock St
Overland Park, KS 66204-3454
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N41W, 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 Bendure Mark, an individual, certificate issued December 9, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 1980, 11 years after the 1969 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 1BW for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N41W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander Aircraft Co PRIMARY GLIDER (serial 24, cancelled January 3, 1933). 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 N41W: Accident on October 17, 1982 at Bates City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Smith MINIPLANE · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83LA009 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