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N18906

Lockheed 12A

N18906 is a Lockheed 12A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dana Point, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed
Model
12A · all 12As and related versions
Serial number
1277
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
Seats
8
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
155 mph
Transponder code
A16492 (octal 50262222)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2003
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00603264

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whittlesey Leslie Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
23611 Sidney Bay
Dana Point, CA 92629-4209
Co-owners
Whittlesey Susan W Trustee

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 2

1983-06-15Beech C24R · Administratively canceled
1943-05-07Ryan Aeronautical ST-A · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N18906, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Whittlesey Leslie Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued May 8, 2003, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N18906 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C24R (serial MC-522, cancelled June 15, 1983); Ryan Aeronautical ST-A (serial 200, cancelled May 7, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N18906: Accident on August 21, 1982 at Palisade, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DEN82DA172Accident on August 21, 1982 at Palisade, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: MC522

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C24R · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN82DA172 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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