Miles Robert SMITH TRIKE
N11VW is a Miles Robert SMITH TRIKE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Springfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Miles Robert
- Model
- SMITH TRIKE
- Serial number
- 001RM
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A02BCA (octal 50025712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 28, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00373632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Miles Robert E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3950 N 8Th Street Rd
Springfield, IL 62707-8474
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N11VW, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Miles Robert E, an individual, certificate issued October 16, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001RM for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N11VW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Willingham V-W SPORT (serial 001VW, cancelled September 3, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N11VW: Accident on July 4, 2018 at Lewiston, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robert Miles Smith Trike · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to the pilot's failure to apply carburetor heat in conditions conducive to carburetor icing and his subsequent failure to maintain directional control during a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data