Maule M-5-180C
N166RW is a Maule M-5-180C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Grasshopper Aviation LLC, an LLC in Betsy Layne, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 14, 1984.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maule
- Model
- M-5-180C · all M-5-180Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. Welded steel-tube fuselage under fabric; metal wing structure. This is how the Maule M-5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 8041-C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A10984 (octal 50204604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 14, 1984
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00970514
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grasshopper Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 130 Kentucky Oil Vlg
Betsy Layne, KY 41605-7021
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N166RW links to the rest of the register
- Maule M-5 364 registered
- Maule 1,345 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Grasshopper Aviation LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Betsy Layne, KY 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,982 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Maule M-5 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Maule M-5 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Maule M-5 211 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N166RW, 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 Grasshopper Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 21, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 14, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8041-C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N166RW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N166RW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data