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N495WT

Turk Walter F SONEX

Valid Texas

N495WT is a Turk Walter F SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Thorndale, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 30, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Turk Walter F
Model
SONEX
Serial number
0495
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aeroconver AEROVEE · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
Transponder code
A624B1 (octal 51422261)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 6, 2016
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 30, 2010
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01037496

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Byrer Charles T
Type
Individual
Address
1185 County Road 457
Thorndale, TX 76577-2554

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N495WT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Byrer Charles T, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 30, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N495WT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N495WT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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