Stamsta David WITTMAN TAILWIND W10
N917WT is a Stamsta David WITTMAN TAILWIND W10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ennis, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stamsta David
- Model
- WITTMAN TAILWIND W10
- Serial number
- 00-1170
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- ACB2B2 (octal 53131262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 25, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00024329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stamsta David T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24 E Belanca Ln
Ennis, MT 59729
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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 N917WT, 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 Stamsta David T, an individual, certificate issued January 10, 2003, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 25, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00-1170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N917WT 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]
1 NTSB record under N917WT: Accident on August 1, 2004 at Waunakee, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stamsta Wittman Tailwind W10 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed during final approach, which resulted in the inadvertent stall/mush at a low altitude and subsequent hard landing. A factor to the accident was the pilot's unsuccessful remedial action to the encountered stall/mush at a low altitude.
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- 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