Holmes Paul M W10 TAILWIND
N456TW is a Holmes Paul M W10 TAILWIND, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Florence, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Holmes Paul M
- Model
- W10 TAILWIND
- Serial number
- 02-1217
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A58A24 (octal 51305044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00186099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmidt Gail M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 307 High Meadows Dr
Florence, CO 81226-9486
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N456TW, 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 Schmidt Gail M, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02-1217 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N456TW 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 N456TW: Accident on May 31, 2023 at Penrose, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: W10 TAILWIND · operated under 091
The failure of the right rudder pedal stop due to an inadequate weld, which resulted in a loss of control on the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA211 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