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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A
N8879 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 an individual in Hartsville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 29, 1970.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- TIGER MOTH DH 82A · all TIGER MOTH DH 82As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Tiger Moth: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- M5239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B69 (octal 53035551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 29, 1970
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00321811
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Mike A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 20950 e 200 N
Hartsville, IN 47244-9757
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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
Connections how N8879 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A 52 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Hartsville, IN 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,695 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N8879, 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 Williams Mike A, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M5239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8879 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air S-6000-B (serial 992, cancelled January 12, 1937). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8879. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data