{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1980-04-16","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-21","city":"MILLEN","country_code":"US","county_code":"165","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-21","maker":"Carlberg","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CARLBERG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"97901A3","mode_s_code":"51041362","mode_s_hex":"A442F2","model":"WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8","n_number":"N374D","name":"WADEL EDWIN K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Heron","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-07-03","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA02LA128","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain vertical clearance from trees.  Factors include tall trees just off the approach end of the runway.","registration":"N374D","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on July 3, 2002 at Heron, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"MARTIN ERNEST M","plain_english":"N374D is a Carlberg WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wadel Edwin K, a partnership in Millen, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wadel Edwin K, a partnership, certificate issued February 21, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 16, 1980, 8 years after the 1972 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 296 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N374D according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N374D: Accident on July 3, 2002 at Heron, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":2,"serial_number":"296","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7011 N HERNDON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00840004","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N374D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"304427409"}