Kerr John Lee THORP T-18
N2056 is a Kerr John Lee THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morrisville, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 20, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kerr John Lee
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- K2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1A7C0 (octal 50323700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 20, 2022
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00080789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hessling Michael M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 123
Morrisville, VT 05661-0123
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2056, 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 Hessling Michael M, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 20, 2022, 18 years after the 2004 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 K2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2056 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Kerr THORP T-18 (serial 474, cancelled May 3, 1988); Travel Air 4000 (serial 184, cancelled December 16, 1954). 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 N2056: Accident on July 11, 1986 at Richland, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Thorp T-18 · operated under 091
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