Charles Florance SONEX
N1842 is a Charles Florance SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Charles Florance
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0845
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A15226 (octal 50251046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01468671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florance Charles W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 802 S Ironwood Dr
South Bend, IN 46615-2135
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 3
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The public federal record on N1842, 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 Florance Charles W, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0845 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1842 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Precision Hawk HAWKEYE MKIII LANCAS (serial PCN-048-201548-010-MSI, cancelled July 12, 2019); Hindle B-8M (serial 7825525, cancelled September 4, 1973); Boeing CL4S (serial UNKNOWN, cancelled February 20, 1928). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1842. 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 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