Ward Ascher YAKOLEV YAK 11
N18AW is a Ward Ascher YAKOLEV YAK 11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gamble Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Elaine, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated November 21, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ward Ascher
- Model
- YAKOLEV YAK 11
- Serial number
- 25-III-20
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-1830-94M2 · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A13E68 (octal 50237150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · November 21, 2022
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00253881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gamble Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 163
Elaine, AR 72333-0163
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 N18AW, 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 Gamble Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 30, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 21, 2022, 68 years after the 1954 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 25-III-20 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18AW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech H-18 (serial BA644, cancelled date not given). 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]
3 NTSB records under N18AW: Accident on February 27, 2001 at Ione, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 12, 1985 at Cartersville, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on August 8, 1983 at Elgin Afb, 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ascher Yakolev YAK 11 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the takeoff run. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience in the type aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech H18 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech H-18 · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data