Aerosport Inc WS-15-2
N88760 is an Aerosport Inc WS-15-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 27, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerosport Inc
- Model
- WS-15-2
- Serial number
- 2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B19 (octal 53035431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 27, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00771801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barnes Thomas M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 160 Falcon Way
Pittsboro, NC 27312-6198
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N88760, 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 Barnes Thomas M, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2000, expires April 30, 2029. 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 2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88760 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Noorduyn UC-64AS (serial 348, cancelled August 9, 1954). 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 N88760: Accident on November 7, 1998 at Parkton, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerosport WS-15-2 · operated under 091
The collapse of the carburetor heat box hose which starved the carburetor of air resulting in a partial loss of power, forced landing and nose over. Factors were the weeds and stocky stubble in the forced landing zone.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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