Walter C Smythe TANGO XR
N454WS is a Walter C Smythe TANGO XR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Walter C Smythe
- Model
- TANGO XR
- Serial number
- 029
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Titan IOX-370 SERIE · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- TEAM TANGO TANGO 2
- Transponder code
- A582FD (octal 51301375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 19, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01149061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Palmer David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9730 Highway 238
Jacksonville, OR 97530-9601
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N454WS, 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 Palmer David M, an individual, certificate issued June 2, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N454WS 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]
1 NTSB record under N454WS: Accident on August 6, 2018 at Mansfield, OH: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Walter C Smythe TANGO XR · operated under 091
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during a go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
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- 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