Wright David SPORTSMAN 2+2
N76TG is a Wright David SPORTSMAN 2+2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boston, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wright David
- Model
- SPORTSMAN 2+2
- Serial number
- 7278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- GLASAIR AVIATION LLC SPORTSMAN 2+2
- Transponder code
- AA40DF (octal 52440337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2019
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 26, 2009
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01017709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papich William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10192 Boston State Rd
Boston, NY 14025-9749
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N76TG, 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 Papich William, an individual, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N76TG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T1 (serial 31T8004011, cancelled date not given). 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 N76TG: Accident on March 14, 2024 at Fort Meade, FL: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Glasair Sportsman 2+2 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate inspection of the airplane following an inflight smoke event, which result in separation of the exhaust pipe and hot exhaust igniting the engine cowling, and a subsequent loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA144 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
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