Meek David S SUN DEVIL
N1418 is a Meek David S SUN DEVIL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Topeka, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Meek David S
- Model
- SUN DEVIL
- Serial number
- DSM II
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A0A9D7 (octal 50124727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2013
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 13, 1985
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00100464
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meek Rodney B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3908 SE 25Th St
Topeka, KS 66605-1848
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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 2
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The public federal record on N1418, 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 Meek Rodney B, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DSM II for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1418 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Smith Miniplane EXPERIMENTAL (serial DSM-1, cancelled September 29, 1975); Fairchild Airplane Mfg Corp FC-2 (serial 7, cancelled July 14, 1928). 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 N1418: Accident on June 1, 2019 at Junction City, KS: no 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: David S Meek SUN DEVIL · operated under 091
The pilot rated passenger's failure to maintain directional control during landing. Contributing to the accident was the improperly maintained main landing gear brake pads.
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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data