American USA
N1518 is an American USA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Saint John, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 20, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American
- Model
- USA
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D156 (octal 50150526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 20, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00750850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pinkston Milton D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 741 NW 130Th St
Saint John, KS 67576-8643
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1518, 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 Pinkston Milton D, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2020, expires January 31, 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1518 according to the deregistered file. [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 N1518: Incident on November 12, 2004 at Fort Collins, CO: no injuries. 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: Blair-American USA · operated under 091
the Blair-American and the Cessna pilot's inadequate visual lookout, and student pilot's failure to give right-of-way to a landing aircraft, which resulted in a runway incursion and subsequent collision. Contributing factors include the student instructor's inadequate supervision, and the student pilot's failure to follow procedures/directives, diverted attention and inadequate radio communications.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN05IA025 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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