Elkins James D KOMPRESS
N18WC is an Elkins James D KOMPRESS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sigmaringen. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 12, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Elkins James D
- Model
- KOMPRESS
- Serial number
- 38
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 914 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- HELI SPORT KOMPRESS
- Transponder code
- A1404A (octal 50240112)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 12, 2012
- FAA region
- European
- FAA record id
- 00673593
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- Wachtelhau 10
Sigmaringen,
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N18WC, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 2012, 12 years after the 2000 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 38 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18WC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cunningham W E ROTORWAY EXEC (serial WPC001, cancelled January 17, 1997). 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 N18WC: Accident on October 13, 1996 at Mather, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Cunningham ROTORWAY EXEC · operated under 091
excessive maneuvering by the pilot, which allowed the main rotor blades to contact and sever the tail rotor system and allowed mast bumping to occur.
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
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