Douglas S Bartlett RV-14A
N218DT is a Douglas S Bartlett RV-14A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Port Richey, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 31, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas S Bartlett
- Model
- RV-14A
- Serial number
- 140537
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-14A
- Transponder code
- A1D797 (octal 50353627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 31, 2020
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01313536
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bartlett Douglas S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8365 Cessna Dr
New Port Richey, FL 34654-5119
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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
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The public federal record on N218DT, 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 Bartlett Douglas S, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 31, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N218DT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thompson David R QUICKIE QZ (serial 2173, cancelled January 22, 2004). 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 N218DT: Accident on July 20, 2003 at Tehachapi, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Thompson Quickie Q2 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent entry into a pilot induced oscillation and failure to maintain airplane control during the takeoff initial climb. A contributing factor was the pilot's likely impairment by an over-the-counter drug substance that degraded his physical and mental performance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03LA237 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data