Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1
N187ES is a Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Spirit Engineering INC, a corporation in Grand Junction, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Spirit Engineering Inc
- Model
- SE-1 · all SE-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 059
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A15B22 (octal 50255442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01567353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spirit Engineering INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 841 21 1/2 Rd
Grand Junction, CO 81505-9711
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N187ES, 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 Spirit Engineering INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. 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 059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N187ES was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gansheimer Edgar L EVANS VP 2 (serial VP2187, cancelled March 13, 1995). 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 N187ES: Accident on February 10, 1994 at Tucson, AZ: 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: Gansheimer EVANS VP2 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to attain and maintain sufficient flying speed during the first flight test of his experimental homebuilt. A factor in the accident was the pilot's selection of a propeller inadequate for the airframe and engine combination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA118 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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