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N78Y

Todd E Thomas WITTMAN TAILWIND W8M

Valid Idaho

N78Y is a Todd E Thomas WITTMAN TAILWIND W8M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nampa, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2009 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 1985.

Aircraft

Maker
Todd E Thomas
Model
WITTMAN TAILWIND W8M
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1984
Transponder code
AA9053 (octal 52510123)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 29, 2009
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 8, 1985
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00804830

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Doster Michael L
Type
Individual
Address
16756 N Gentry Dr
Nampa, ID 83687-4111

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 1

1970-07-17Raven Industries 3323-261-134 · Valid registration

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