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N52816

Handsome Joseph WITTMAN TAILWIND W10

N52816 is a Handsome Joseph WITTMAN TAILWIND W10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Handsome Joseph
Model
WITTMAN TAILWIND W10
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen 2180CC · 120 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A6A940 (octal 51524500)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 9, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 25, 2019
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01296736

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Muhle John V
Type
Individual
Address
133 W Doral Ct
Sioux Falls, SD 57108-6413

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 4

2010-07-14Cessna T182T · exported to Turkey · Valid registration
2004-11-22Schaefer George SUPER KOALA · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1988-11-10Cessna 172P · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1970-09-03Boeing A75N1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N52816, 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 Muhle John V, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52816 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Cessna T182T (serial T18209001, cancelled July 14, 2010); Schaefer George SUPER KOALA (serial SK072, cancelled November 22, 2004); Cessna 172P (serial 17274613, cancelled November 10, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N52816. 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