Rare Aircraft Ltd TAPERWING T-10
N98TW is a Rare Aircraft Ltd TAPERWING T-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Desoto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rare Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- TAPERWING T-10
- Serial number
- 2502
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- ADAA89 (octal 53325211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00826861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Robert E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1105 Frost Hollow Dr
Desoto, TX 75115-7416
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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 N98TW, 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 Jones Robert E, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2502 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98TW 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 N98TW: Accident on August 10, 2002 at Omaha, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rare Aircraft WACO T-10 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of a restricted fuel line, and the unsuitable terrain for landing encountered by the pilot. A contributing factor was the bean field.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA242 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