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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Wilkins Eugene SE 5-A
N18609 is a Wilkins Eugene SE 5-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lewisville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 8, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilkins Eugene
- Model
- SE 5-A
- Serial number
- EW-1
- 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 · Cont Motor 0-200-A · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A15970 (octal 50254560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 8, 2006
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00229569
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Underwood Gary
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1216 Cloudy Sky Ln
Lewisville, TX 75067-5530
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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 2
Connections how N18609 links to the rest of the register
- Wilkins Eugene 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental O-200-A 96 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Lewisville, TX 125 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,985 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N18609.json.
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The public federal record on N18609, 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 Underwood Gary, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 8, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EW-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18609 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15073984, cancelled May 16, 2003); Boeing 314 (serial 2083, cancelled December 13, 1946). 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 N18609: Accident on November 27, 2000 at Valley Spring, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 150L · operated under 091
the loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion after the pilot became lost during cruise flight. A contributing factor was the dark night condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data