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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Turner Russell AIRDROME SOPWITH BAB
N8184 is a Turner Russell AIRDROME SOPWITH BAB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Turner Russell
- Model
- AIRDROME SOPWITH BAB
- Serial number
- N8184
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotec R2800 · 110 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- AIRDROME AEROPLANES SOPWITH BABY
- Transponder code
- AB29F8 (octal 52624770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 9, 2013
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01088016
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western North Carolina Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2343
Hendersonville, NC 28793-2343
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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
Connections how N8184 links to the rest of the register
- Turner Russell 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotec R2800 22 aircraft with this engine series · 110 hp
- Western North Carolina Air Museum 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Hendersonville, NC 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Hendersonville Airport · 0A7
- North Carolina 7,126 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8184.json.
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The public federal record on N8184, 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 Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 24, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2013, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial N8184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8184 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bensen B-8 (serial T0053882, cancelled May 14, 2001). 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 N8184: Accident on April 27, 2001 at Watertown, NY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bensen Aircraft Corp. Gyroplane · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in rotary wing aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data