Grimaud Joseph A Jr SEAWIND 3000
N98GG is a Grimaud Joseph A Jr SEAWIND 3000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC, a corporation in Bennington, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grimaud Joseph A Jr
- Model
- SEAWIND 3000
- Serial number
- 018
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SNA INC SEAWIND 3000
- Transponder code
- ADA968 (octal 53324550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 15, 1999
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00153866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 93 Pace Rd
Bennington, VT 05201-8755
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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 N98GG, 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 Sandlapper Aviation Of De INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 3, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98GG 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 N98GG: Accident on October 3, 2000 at Chapin, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Joseph A. Grimaud SEAWIND 3000 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor was the trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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