N104DWittman Tailwind W-8
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 19, 2026- Registered owner
- Individual owner
- City, state
- Cape Carteret, NC
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 1999
- Expires
- Apr 30, 2027
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur Built
- Airworthiness date
- Nov 21, 1977
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Wittman Tailwind
- Model
- W-8
- Serial number
- A101
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing single engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Not Type Certificated
- Seats
- 1
- Engines
- 1
- Max takeoff weight
- Up to 12,499 lb
- Mode S code
- A013DB
Engine
- Make and model
- Lycoming 0-235 Series
- Type
- Reciprocating
- Power
- 115 hp
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 1999 – nowIndividual ownerCape Carteret, NC · current
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 18, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
Accident history for this modelADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Propellers · governor · failedMay 25, 2011
UPON REMOVAL OF THE GOVERNOR HEAD IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE PILOT VALVE ASSEMBLY EXPERIENCED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. THE PILOT VALVE IS ASSEMBLED OF THREE COMPONENTS; THE VALVE TUBE AND THE END FITTING WHICH ARE PRESS FITTED TOGETHER AND A SET SCREW WHICH ADDITIONALLY SECURES THE TWO TOGETHER.…
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 19, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 18, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026