Eklund Richard D THORP T-18
N181RE is an Eklund Richard D THORP T-18, 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 Yelm, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eklund Richard D
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 195
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A145DF (octal 50242737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 26, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00516001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jacobsen Gary J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11019 Aero Ln SE
Yelm, WA 98597-9613
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N181RE, 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 Jacobsen Gary J, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N181RE 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 N181RE: Accident on June 27, 2006 at San Andreas, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eklund Thorp T-18 · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudged airspeed and distance during the approach, and his failure to initiate a timely go-around, which resulted in a landing overrun.
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