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N18TE

Ferguson Fred S Jr THORP T-18

N18TE is a Ferguson Fred S Jr THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Selah, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 10, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Ferguson Fred S Jr
Model
THORP T-18
Serial number
883
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1984
Transponder code
A14001 (octal 50240001)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 10, 1984
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00852001

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Riste Nolan Rae
Type
Individual
Address
801 Boyd Rd
Selah, WA 98942-8641

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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

2009-12-22Evans Thomas L GENESIS · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N18TE, 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 Riste Nolan Rae, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 10, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N18TE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Evans Thomas L GENESIS (serial 028, cancelled December 22, 2009). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N18TE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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