Hoots THORP T-18
N18CH is a Hoots THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Oakdale, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hoots
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- CH374
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A13E8D (octal 50237215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00322530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoover Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7027 37Th St N
Oakdale, MN 55128-3340
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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 N18CH, 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 Hoover Charles, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 1979, 5 years after the 1974 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 CH374 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18CH 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 N18CH: Accident on July 6, 2025 at Lake Elmo, MN: 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: Thorp T18 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain obstacle clearance during the go-around, that resulted in the tailwheel impacting a taxiway sign, a subsequent loss of control due to the damaged tailwheel, and a runway excursion during the landing.
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