Bud Wiitala CHUTE 66
N966KW is a Bud Wiitala CHUTE 66, a powered parachute with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sweeny, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 24, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bud Wiitala
- Model
- CHUTE 66
- Serial number
- PRX1C004
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Yamaha RX-1 · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AD7366 (octal 53271546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 24, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01490075
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiitala Chris Bud
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6932 County Road 683
Sweeny, TX 77480-8008
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N966KW, 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 April 15, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 24, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PRX1C004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N966KW 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 N966KW. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data