Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A
N838KC is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mike Smith Aviation International INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 29, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- TIGER MOTH DH 82A · all TIGER MOTH DH 82As and related versions
- Serial number
- NL-838
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- AB76F6 (octal 52673366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 29, 1991
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00293201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mike Smith Aviation International INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2032 Airport Rd
Napa, CA 94558-6208
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N838KC, 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 Mike Smith Aviation International INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 20, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial NL-838 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N838KC 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]
2 NTSB records under N838KC: Accident on May 5, 2001 at Sonoma, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 5, 1998 at Petaluma, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland Tiger Moth DH 82A · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot to properly flush out the fuel system after the header tank became submerged in water, which precipitated a loss of engine power and forced landing in a soft open dirt area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA165 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot in the Tiger Moth to see and avoid traffic. A contributing factor was the delayed reaction of the student pilot in the Cessna to initiate a turnoff of the taxiway once it became apparent that the other airplane did not see him.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA025 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
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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