Matt SCORPION WM-1
N8862 is a Matt SCORPION WM-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Heloworks Group LLC, an LLC in Meriden, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 11, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Matt
- Model
- SCORPION WM-1
- Serial number
- M-101
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- AC36BD (octal 53033275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 11, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00271861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heloworks Group LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 432
Meriden, KS 66512-0432
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8862, 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 Heloworks Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 11, 1972, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8862 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 N8862. 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