Mark D Erickson S18-180
N230ME is a Mark D Erickson S18-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valley Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mark D Erickson
- Model
- S18-180
- Serial number
- 2018-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- DAKOTA CUB AIRCRAFT S18-180 AGGRESSOR
- Transponder code
- A20998 (octal 50404630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01409955
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Erickson Mark D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 48473 262Nd St
Valley Springs, SD 57068-6730
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
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The public federal record on N230ME, 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 Erickson Mark D, an individual, certificate issued June 23, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2018-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N230ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201T (serial 28R7803312, cancelled May 26, 2010). 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 N230ME: Accident on June 3, 2008 at Palatka, FL: minor 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: Piper PA-28R-201T · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to a blockage of the engine exhaust system as a result of an internal failure of the muffler.
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
