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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Thomas Mel Jordan PA18EXP
N18EX is a Thomas Mel Jordan PA18EXP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oro Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 6, 2023.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 1:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Mel Jordan
- Model
- PA18EXP
- Serial number
- JA003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont IOX370 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A13ECD (octal 50237315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 6, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01405032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jordan Thomas Mel
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14289 N Silver Cloud Dr
Oro Valley, AZ 85755-4755
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N18EX links to the rest of the register
- Thomas Mel Jordan 2 aircraft on the register
- Continental IOX370 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Oro Valley, AZ 113 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
- Where N18EX is now · Last seen Thursday at 1:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N18EX, 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 Jordan Thomas Mel, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 6, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18EX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Home Built SINGLE PLACE AIRPLAN (serial 2, cancelled January 25, 2013). 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 N18EX: Accident on August 14, 2008 at Richland, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kolb Mark III · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed above stall speed while executing a steeply banked turn in the traffic pattern.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data