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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Borden Charles R THORP T-18
N243X is a Borden Charles R THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Franklin, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 24, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Borden Charles R
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 160
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A23D31 (octal 50436461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2026
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 24, 1998
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00096721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williamson Lee e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4691 Turnertown Rd
Franklin, KY 42134-5921
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N243X links to the rest of the register
- Borden Charles R 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Franklin, KY 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,983 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N243X.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N243X, 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 Williamson Lee e, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 160 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N243X 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N243X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data