Ryan Aeronautical ST-A SPECIAL
N18904 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST-A SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blue Springs, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2007 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 20, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan Aeronautical
- Model
- ST-A SPECIAL · all ST-A SPECIALs and related versions
- Serial number
- 188
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Menasco PIRATE C4 D4 · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1938
- Cruising speed
- 92 mph
- Transponder code
- A16490 (octal 50262220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2007
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 20, 1960
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00732800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Miller James L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1001 SW 7 Highway Unit 225
Blue Springs, MO 64014
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.
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The public federal record on N18904, 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 Miller James L, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2007, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 20, 1960, 22 years after the 1938 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18904 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 N18904: Accident on May 9, 1999 at Leesburg, FL: 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: Ryan ST-A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance from the fence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA99LA154 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