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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Rearwin 8500 DELUXE
N18771 is a Rearwin 8500 DELUXE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rearwin
- Model
- 8500 DELUXE · all 8500 DELUXEs 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 Rearwin 8500 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
- 581D
- 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 · Leblond 85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A15E14 (octal 50257024)
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 4, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00744651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merriam Paul A
- 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
- 1342 Frenchtown Rd
East Greenwich, RI 02818-1309
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N18771 links to the rest of the register
- Rearwin 8500 6 registered
- Rearwin 75 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
- Leblond 85 series 10 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- East Greenwich, RI 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Rhode Island 361 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Rearwin 8500 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N18771, 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 Merriam Paul A, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 581D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18771 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N18771. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data