Shearer William Joseph AVID MARK IV
N181LL is a Shearer William Joseph AVID MARK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vicksburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shearer William Joseph
- Model
- AVID MARK IV
- Serial number
- 1300B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A14568 (octal 50242550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 1996
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 9, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00985372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shearer William J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14550 N Barton Lake Dr
Vicksburg, MI 49097-8773
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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 1
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The public federal record on N181LL, 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 Shearer William J, an individual, certificate issued October 28, 1996, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1300B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N181LL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B90 (serial LJ440, cancelled April 9, 1991). 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 N181LL: Accident on April 5, 1988 at St. Paul, MN: 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: Beech B90 · operated under 135
MECHANICAL FAILURE AND STICKING OF THE PILOTS THUMB OPERATED TRIM SWITCH CAUSING NOSE DOWN PITCH COMMAND. THE FAILURE OF THE CABIN HEATER AND THE LOW CABIN TEMPERATURE ARE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
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
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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