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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026North Wing Inc APACHE
N76NW is a North Wing Inc APACHE, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lenoir, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for weight-shift control, dated July 7, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North Wing Inc
- Model
- APACHE
- Serial number
- 8170
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AA4070 (octal 52440160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Weight-shift controlFAA certificate purpose code W (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 7, 2008
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00459699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pearson William C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3218 Zacks Fork Rd
Lenoir, NC 28645-6881
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N76NW links to the rest of the register
- North Wing Inc 2 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 series 1,193 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Lenoir, NC 48 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,122 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N76NW.json.
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The public federal record on N76NW, 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 Pearson William C, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for weight-shift control, dated July 7, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N76NW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N76NW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data