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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Taylorcraft F21B
N4418U is a Taylorcraft F21B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- F21B · all F21Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Taylorcraft F21 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
- F-1518
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A551D7 (octal 51250727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00953861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lucas Gregory
- 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
- 1741 4Th St
Santa Rosa, CA 95404-3601
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
Connections how N4418U links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft F21 13 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,897 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Santa Rosa, CA 256 aircraft registered in this town
- Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County · STS
- California 27,761 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft F21 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft F21 12 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4418U.json.
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The public federal record on N4418U, 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 Lucas Gregory, an individual, certificate issued November 1, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. 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 F-1518 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4418U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150 (serial 15060418, cancelled September 10, 1975). 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 N4418U: Accident on July 12, 2001 at Simsbury, CT: 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: Taylorcraft F21B · operated under 091
**This report was modified on 2/24/2016. Refer to the public docket for this accident for additional details.** a loose tail wheel assembly and the failure of maintenance personnel to adequately follow annual inspection procedures. A factor in the accident was the crosswind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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