Maughan Wesley J STARDUSTER II
N78WT is a Maughan Wesley J STARDUSTER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in White Settlement, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maughan Wesley J
- Model
- STARDUSTER II
- Serial number
- M-3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AA9033 (octal 52510063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 29, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00864820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cole Thomas Ed
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1305 Dale Ln
White Settlement, TX 76108-6384
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N78WT, 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 Cole Thomas Ed, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 29, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78WT 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]
1 NTSB record under N78WT: Accident on February 24, 2025 at Azle, TX: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Starduster II · operated under 091
On February 24, 2025, at 1430 central standard time, a Starduster II airplane, N78WT, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Azle, Texas. The private pilot and a passenger received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The pilot had flown the airplane earlier in the day and planned on flying the airplane in the airport traffic pattern at the time of the accident. He said the takeoff was normal and during the downwind to base leg turn for runway 15, the airplane became sluggish and was sinking. He said t…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data