John A Webb Jr WEBB 2
N4844W is a John A Webb Jr WEBB 2, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John A Webb Jr
- Model
- WEBB 2
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Viking 110 · 110 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A5FA6E (octal 51375156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 26, 2013
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01113363
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 24025
Waco, TX 76702-4025
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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 1
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The public federal record on N4844W, 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 Smith Michael A, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4844W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 114 (serial 14174, cancelled January 5, 1977). 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 N4844W: Accident on January 28, 2013 at Gainsville, TX: 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: Webb WEBB 2 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to follow his test plan and abort the takeoff after inadvertently lifting off during a high speed taxi test. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s lack of flight experience in the gyroplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13LA147 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