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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Helio HT-295
N18JC is a Helio HT-295, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Winged Vision Incorporated, a corporation in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 25, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Helio
- Model
- HT-295 · all HT-295s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Helio HT-295 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1719
- 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 · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- A13F1E (octal 50237436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 25, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00732510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Winged Vision Incorporated
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7600 Lindbergh Dr Ste F
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-5407
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.
Connections how N18JC links to the rest of the register
- Helio HT-295 13 registered
- Helio 120 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming GO-480 series 246 aircraft with this engine series · 295 hp
- Winged Vision Incorporated 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Gaithersburg, MD 66 aircraft registered in this town
- Montgomery County Airpark · GAI
- Maryland 2,348 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Helio HT-295 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Helio HT-295 7 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Helio HT-295 128 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming GO-480 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming GO-480 series 11 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Saddle, cracked · 2013-04-19
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The public federal record on N18JC, 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 Winged Vision Incorporated, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 1998, 24 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 1719 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18JC 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 N18JC: Accident on January 5, 2025 at Marion, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Helio HT-295 · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear spring due to intergranular stress-corrosion cracking that progressed into fatigue. Contributing to the accident was the improper rework of the spring at an undetermined time.
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