Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5
N18048 is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lavala Quebec. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 11, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1B-2-S5 · all DHC-1B-2-S5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 186/224
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A143B1 (octal 50241661)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 11, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00244651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 260 Vanass
Lavala Quebec, H7X 3L9
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N18048, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2011, 55 years after the 1956 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 186/224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18048 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna C-38 (serial 400, cancelled December 5, 1938); Cessna 150L (serial 15073758, cancelled date not given). 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 N18048: Accident on July 4, 1984 at Henderson, NV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 150 · operated under 091
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
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