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N77YX

Shell James R WAIEX

Valid Indiana

N77YX is a Shell James R WAIEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bremen, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 30, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Shell James R
Model
WAIEX
Serial number
W0077
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC WAIEX
Transponder code
AA68EA (octal 52464352)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 31, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 30, 2010
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01026858

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shell James R
Type
Individual
Address
390 Ironwood Rd
Bremen, IN 46506-9640

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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 N77YX, 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 Shell James R, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2009, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial W0077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N77YX 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 N77YX. 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