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N282M

Wiggins James C WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8

Valid Illinois

N282M is a Wiggins James C WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lacon, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 1, 1988.

Aircraft

Maker
Wiggins James C
Model
WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8
Serial number
652
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A2D67C (octal 50553174)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 5, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 5, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 1, 1988
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00394001

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mccune Charles E
Type
Individual
Address
868 County Rd 1325
Lacon, IL 61540

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2000-11-27Beech D18S · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
—Southern Aircraft Corporation AIR BOSS · Valid registration

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