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Lockheed 18-56
N31G is a Lockheed 18-56, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued February 10, 2003). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 6, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- 18-56 · all 18-56s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lockheed 18 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2302
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Wright C9HD SERIES · 1425 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 184 mph
- Transponder code
- A3450E (octal 50642416)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2003
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · December 6, 1955
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00441383
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8325 Travelair St
Houston, TX 77061-4716
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.
Connections how N31G links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed 18 13 registered
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright C9HD series 20 aircraft with this engine series · 1425 hp
- Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,182 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lockheed 18 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Lockheed 18 3 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Lockheed 18 156 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N31G, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 6, 1955, 13 years after the 1942 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 2302 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31G 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 N31G. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data