Thompson Repair WAG AERO WAG-A-BOND
N8498B is a Thompson Repair WAG AERO WAG-A-BOND, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Stratford, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thompson Repair
- Model
- WAG AERO WAG-A-BOND
- Serial number
- 852992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABA4BA (octal 52722272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 23, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00062831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoeft Brian K
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 14354 396Th Ave
Stratford, SD 57474-7101 - Co-owners
- Hillestad Darrell L
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8498B, 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 Hoeft Brian K, a co-owned, certificate issued January 4, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 852992 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8498B 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8498B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- 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
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