Tailwind W-8
N9424H is a Tailwind W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rockford, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tailwind
- Model
- W-8 · all W-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 86
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AD1782 (octal 53213602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00350171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcclung Richard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2335 S Perryville Rd
Rockford, IL 61108-8228
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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 N9424H, 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 Mcclung Richard C, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1980, 18 years after the 1962 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 86 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9424H 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 N9424H: Accident on February 14, 2026 at Poplar Grove, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Tailwind W-8 · operated under 091
On February 14, 2026, about 1600 central standard time, an experimental, amateur-built Tailwind W-8 airplane, N9424H, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Poplar Grove, Illinois. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to witnesses, the pilot attended a local fly-in event at Cottonwood airport (1C8), Rockford, Illinois, and was returning to Poplar Grove Airport (C77) at the time of the accident. The pilot departed 1C8 about 15 minutes before the accident. The pilot was not in commun…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26FA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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