Monocoupe 90A
N18176 is a Monocoupe 90A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Reese Flying Service INC, a corporation in Muncie, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 25, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Monocoupe
- Model
- 90A · all 90As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Monocoupe 90 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
- A-802
- 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 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A147CF (octal 50243717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- 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 · October 25, 1955
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00953252
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reese Flying Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4301 S County Road 388 e
Muncie, IN 47302-9205
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 1
Connections how N18176 links to the rest of the register
- Monocoupe 90 63 registered
- Monocoupe 93 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-290 series 2,126 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Reese Flying Service INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Muncie, IN 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware County Regional · MIE
- Reese Airport · 7I2
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Monocoupe 90 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Monocoupe 90 24 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 series 7 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N18176, 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 Reese Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 27, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 1955, 14 years after the 1941 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 A-802 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18176 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15073845, cancelled April 29, 1993). 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 N18176: Accident on August 19, 1992 at Put-In-Bay, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150L · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF CARBURETOR HEAT, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER AND SUBSEQUENT FORCED LANDING IN TREES.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data