M-Squared Aircraft BREESE 2
N18VE is a M-Squared Aircraft BREESE 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sky Knights Flight Club, a corporation in Thousand Oaks, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 29, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- M-Squared Aircraft
- Model
- BREESE 2 · all BREESE 2s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the M-Squared Aircraft BREESE 2 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
- 000550
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A14033 (octal 50240063)
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 28, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00393909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Knights Flight Club (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 3043 Darlington Dr
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-4553
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N18VE links to the rest of the register
- M-Squared Aircraft BREESE 2 7 registered
- M-Squared Aircraft 11 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Sky Knights Flight Club 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Thousand Oaks, CA 79 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N18VE, 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 Sky Knights Flight Club, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 29, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 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 000550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18VE 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 N18VE: Accident on November 10, 1996 at Oklahoma City, OK: 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: Gilbert RUTAN VARI EZE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to follow proper starting procedures and set the throttle to idle before hand propping.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data