Purvis T-18
N39JP is a Purvis T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 31, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Purvis
- Model
- T-18
- Serial number
- 217
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- A48146 (octal 51100506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 31, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00220554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cabebe Brian M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2662 S Springwood Blvd Unit 436
Mesa, AZ 85209-2992
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N39JP, 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 Cabebe Brian M, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 31, 1980, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 217 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39JP 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 N39JP: Accident on January 14, 2001 at Chiriaco Summit, CA: 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: Purvis/Thorpe T-18 · operated under 091
The dual student's improper recovery from a bounced landing, his failure to maintain directional control during the go-around, and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the go-around attempt.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA076 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
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