Winchester THORP T-18
N27DW is a Winchester THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Olney, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 23, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Winchester
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 94
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A483 (octal 50522203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 23, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00783502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fritschle Derek R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2902 N Shell Rd
Olney, IL 62450-5228
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N27DW, 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 Fritschle Derek R, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2007, 32 years after the 1975 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 94 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27DW 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]
1 NTSB record under N27DW: Accident on October 19, 1991 at Walterboro, SC: no 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: Winchester THORP T-18 · operated under 091
THE STUDENT PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE WHEEL BRAKES, AND THE SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. FACTORS IN THIS ACCIDENT WERE THE STUDENT PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL FLYING EXPERIENCE AND THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF THE FLIGHT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA011 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