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N8232

Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A

N8232 is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
TIGER MOTH DH 82A · all TIGER MOTH DH 82As and related versions
Serial number
3963
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1940
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
AB3E9E (octal 52637236)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 25, 2002
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 15, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00093661

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jenkins George Merritt
Type
Individual
Address
131 Iron Works Way
Wayne, PA 19087-4200

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8232, 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 Jenkins George Merritt, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 1980, 40 years after the 1940 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3963 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8232 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 N8232. 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