Michael D Burke BURKE THORP T18
N12MB is a Michael D Burke BURKE THORP T18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mckean, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 11, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael D Burke
- Model
- BURKE THORP T18
- Serial number
- 1948
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0526E (octal 50051156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 11, 2015
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01178337
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harrison Hayden F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9260 Fry Rd
Mckean, PA 16426-1542
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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 N12MB, 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 Harrison Hayden F, an individual, certificate issued February 15, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1948 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12MB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E-2371, cancelled August 18, 2009). 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 N12MB: Accident on December 15, 2002 at Laurens, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A36 · operated under 091
Improper maintenance and inspection of the airplane by other maintenance personnel, and their failure to install the fuel line support after maintenance had been completed, which resulted in the introduction of vibrational loads and the in-flight separation of the fuel line from the fuel flow transmitter, fuel starvation, the subsequent loss of engine power, an emergency descent/ landing, and damage to the airplane during the off airport 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