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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Bud Wiitala CHUTE 66
N966DW is a Bud Wiitala CHUTE 66, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sweeny, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bud Wiitala
- Model
- CHUTE 66
- Serial number
- PR670E001
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 670 · 107 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AD72D0 (octal 53271320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01277710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiitala Chris Bud
- 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
- 6932 County Road 683
Sweeny, TX 77480-8008
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N966DW links to the rest of the register
- Bud Wiitala 2 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 670 9 aircraft with this engine series · 107 hp
- Sweeny, TX 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,985 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N966DW.json.
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The public federal record on N966DW, 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 Wiitala Chris Bud, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 17, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PR670E001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N966DW 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 N966DW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data