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N278WW

Beech D17S

Valid Louisiana

N278WW is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Wedell Williams Memorial Foundations, a corporation in Patterson, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 1980 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 21, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
D17S
Serial number
264
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1939
Cruising speed
158 mph
Transponder code
A2C63D (octal 50543075)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 3, 1980
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · June 21, 1956
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00260173

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wedell Williams Memorial Foundations
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 38
Patterson, LA 70392-0038

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data